- From: Michael Monaghan <Michael.Monaghan@Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:59:58 -0400
- To: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Jon Hanna wrote: > > Martin Duerst wrote: > >> >> Two possibilities I can immagine: >> >> - The document is XML-based, the browser recognizes this, and >> the uses the UTF-8 default for XML documents. >> - The browser analyses the byte sequences in the document and >> heuristically detects that the document looks like UTF-8. >> The chances for detecting UTF-8 correctly go up very quickly >> even with only very few non-ASCII characters. > > > And goes up massively if the stream begins with a BOM (though using a > BOM with UTF-8 has other issues). > OK - thanks, this makes sense. btw - my browsers are Mozilla 1.7 & IE 6 /XP. Appreciated. -mm
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