Kevin Bracey wrote:
>
> Hmmm. I don't use IE or Netscape, personally, and when I did fiddle with
> them I found their interface for encoding selection somewhat bizarre. My
> source was the HTML 4.0 draft of 17-Sep-1997, which says:
>
> 1. Explicit user action to override erroneous behaviour.
> 2. An HTTP "charset" parameter.
> 3. A META declaration.
> 4. The "charset" attribute of A and LINK elements.
> 5. User agent heuristics (eg autodetection) and user settings.
>
> That's what I've implemented.
Please see the latest HTML 4.0 Specification (dated 7-Nov-1997) which is a
W3C Proposed Recommendation. This section has been substantially modified.
The URL is <http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-html40>.
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