Christian Biesinger wrote: > Daniel R. Tobias wrote: > >> barney wrote: >> >>> http://www.everywine.co.uk/preston17/brownbros/BBgift.html >> >> >> I checked, and there isn't any charset in the server response either; >> try this HTTP response checker: >> http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html >> >> Mozilla seems to be guessing the character encoding from the data itself > > The file starts with 0xff 0xfe - this is a so-called Byte Order Mark > (BOM) and indicates that the file is stored in UTF-16, Little-Endian > format.
This link contains more information about BOMs: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#25 -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
