> Actually the HTML4 docs tell you to do the other way round. Use the
> encoding specified in the HTTP-header, if none is specified use the
> meta tag, otherwise one could try 8859-1. This is, because servers and
> proxies are allowed to change the encoding of the document on the fly,
> if the browser doesn't accept the encoding the document is written in.

Actually the stuff in the meta-tags (*if you use http-equiv= and not
name=) is supposed to be treated like an HTTP header... lovely eh?

- alex