Re: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages

From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 02:50:36 EDT

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    Peter Constable wrote,

    > Folks, feel free to spend your time bantering on about whether something
    > should or shouldn't do this or that. But while you're at it, if you want
    > to know whether the http encoding declaration is supposed to have
    > precedence over the encoding declaration inside the HTML doc, go read the
    > specs to find the definitive answer.

    Here's one of the specs:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2

    And, here's a page which extrapolates from the specs, please note
    that the "TO SUM IT ALL UP" is most instructive:

    http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/dec2002.html

    Best regards,

    James
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