- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 03:12:04 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Yves Savourel" <ysavourel@translate.com>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
> I didn't find anything in the CSS1 or CSS2 specifications indicating how
> to declare encoding for a CSS file. It's clearly defined how to encode
> UCS characters with the \HHH mechanism, but if comments are in a given
> language the encoding of the file should be able to support it.
> I also noticed that Netscape 6 treats CSS file as iso-8859-1, regardless
> the encoding declaration of the calling XML document and/or the encoding
> of the CSS file itself. It also not seems to supports UTF-16 CSS files.
There is an '@charset' declaration. If you use it, it has to be the
very first thing in the file:
@charset "iso-8859-1";
See section 4.4 of CSS2
I don't know whether any browsers implement it yet.
Bert
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