Setting the HTTP response header:

 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1


or adding the tag:

 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">


or even both - still does not deter IE from scanning the contents and 
interpreting them as UTF-7 when Encoding=Auto-Select.

(observed on w2k with IE 6.0.2800.1106 SP1 + Q867801 + Q823353 + Q833989 + 
Q903235)


It appears there is little that web servers can do to thwart this, short of 
changing all '+' characters to %2B.  That seems excessive.


-tom-

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