- From: Jungshik Shin <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:48:50 +0900
- To: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- CC: Jakub Friedl <kyknos@gmail.com>, www-international@w3.org
Tex Texin wrote: > Jakub, > > The charset meta statement should go first. In fact it should be placed > immediately after the <head> statement. It's a good advice and I always do that way. > Otherwise text in the page prior to the charset statement may not be decoded > correctly. However, as long as the encoding used is ASCII-compatible, it doesn't matter much. I believe most user 'agents' look for 'meta' declaration for charset and reparse the document from the beginning after determining the encoding (assuming http C-T header doesn't have charset parameter) Jungshik
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