From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 06:51:13 EST
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#spec-char-encoding
Says:
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For example, to specify that the character encoding of the current document is
"EUC-JP", a document should include the following META declaration:
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-JP">
The META declaration must only be used when the character encoding is
organized such that ASCII-valued bytes stand for ASCII characters (at least
until the META element is parsed). META declarations should appear as early as
possible in the HEAD element.
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Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 14:27, Tex Texin wrote:
> > > AFAICR, there is supposed to be no single non-ASCII character before that
> > > <meta> tag.
> >
> > I don't believe the standard says that. However, it is recommended that the
> > META content-type statement is placed as early as possible, [...]
>
> Yes, it was something along those lines. Do you a little time to spare
> finding the exact text of the recommendation?
>
> roozbeh
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