- From: Jens Brueckmann <jens.brueckmann@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:01:30 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
> > <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> > > ... is only a paper moon. > > <meta http-equiv> is *always* a fake - for content-type, > for content-language, for everything. > > Especially you cannot set the content-type with such a fake: > http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/meta-http-equiv.1 > http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/meta-http-equiv.2 I saved both files to my harddisk and subsequently opened them in my browser. The "content" parameter did indeed have no effect. But the "charset" parameter did make a difference. Choosing the wrong character encoding in example 1 lead to display of rubbish, whereas choosing the correct character encoding lead to display of Greek characters. Cheers, jens -- Jens Brueckmann http://www.yalf.de
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