- From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:05:34 +0100 (MET)
- To: Chris Wendt <christw@microsoft.com>
- cc: erik <erik@netscape.com>, Reinier van Kleij <rklei@acm.org>, www-international <www-international@w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Chris Wendt wrote: > Confirming what Erik says: > > We _have_ to reload, reconvert to the target charset and re-render the > document on encountering the <meta.... charset=...> tag if the indicated > charset differs from what we expected, typically the current user default of > the browser. I can only confirm what others said. However, as to the "_have_" above, I have to say that there are implementation techniques that don't require this, assuming that everything before <meta.... charset=...> is ASCII only. You can e.g. use C++ input streams that allow for filters to be pushed on top of them, where the filter is doing the conversion. Probably not available in standard C++, but in a library I use. Regards, Martin.
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