Stanimir Stamenkov <s7a...@netscape.net> writes:

> Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:00:15 +0100, /Richmond/:
>> Richmond writes:
>>
>>> If someone posts the characters Left Double Quotation Mark “ or Right
>>> Double Quotation Mark ” without any mime headers to indicate the encoding,
>>> Seamonkey seems to manage to display them anyway, whereas Gnus displays
>>> \223 \224. How is Seamonkey managing to find out what these codes mean? and
>>> how can I find out what character encoding it has chosen to use?
>>>
>>> Can Seamonkey change encodings in the middle of an article? For example if
>>> I use Greek Drachma Sign 𐅻 will that appear?
>>
>> I should say that it doesn't seem to be using the default of
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 because 224 represents à on
>> that system.
>
> I guess it is because browsers generally default to Windows-1252 (see the
> table in the last point 8):
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/syntax.html#determining-the-character-encoding

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 char 224 is à
too.
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