Re: charset in HTTP vs. HTML meta (was Re: UTF-16 and HTML META charset)

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Erik van der Poel wrote:
>
> The early 4.X versions (roughly 4.0 - 4.05) [...]
>
> The same versions had a problem where it would render a document
> containing META charset, twice even if it got it right the first time.

Here are a couple of documents describing the above bug:

  http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/charset/ns-burp.html
  http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/TEST/

I have not read them in detail, and cannot confirm that they are 100%
correct.

Erik

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