> I cannot help the wrong result. (I guess some browsers might do better > work at sniffing the content of the page, but at least IE6 and Opera 6.05 > on Win32 seem to believe the server rather than the (HTML of the) page.
After some experimentation it seems that I blamed Opera 6.05/Win32 wrongly, it guesses the charset right. But as pointed out by Tex, HTTP/HTML charset ponderings are probably not Unicode issue as such, they are more a WWW issue, sorry about the slight off-topicalness.

