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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Unicode for khtml (was: Re: kdelibs/khtml (fwd))
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-04-07 23:11:01
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> 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

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