Stephen Turner wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:
> >
> > Check the headers returned from your Web server, the default Apache 2
> > configuration includes a charset attribute on the Content-Type header, which
> > takes precedence over the meta tag.
> >
>
> Is that true? It would seem more logical to me that the document's meta tag
> should take precedence. The HTML spec doesn't seem to say either way, as far
> as I can see.

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

[C]onforming user agents must observe the following priorities when determining a
document's character encoding (from highest priority to lowest):

1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field.
2. A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a value set for
"charset".
3. The charset attribute set on an element that designates an external resource.


--
Klaus Johannes Rusch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/


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