Hola Manuel, Dejan, There are pros and cons to using the HTTP header to declare the encoding. At the W3C we recommend that you always declare encoding inside the document, whether or not you use the HTTP header. Unlike something like language declaration, the meta statement for character encoding declarations is very widely recognised, and is the only in-document means to declare encoding for HTML. If serving XHTML you need to also consider the pros and cons of using the XML declaration. For more detail, see
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ and http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-character.html (still early draft!) Cheers, RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel > González Noriega > Sent: 22 November 2004 09:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using > special characters > > [UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long > > as you remember to put a <meta http-equiv="content-type" > > content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> in your page's head. > > Actually, what you should be doing is getting the server to > send the right content-type header. Meta elements are not > authoritative and in fact lead many people to confusion when > they are superceded by the server headers. > > > > -- > Manuel > a veces :) a veces :( > pero siempre trabajando duro para Simplelógica: apariencia, > experiencia y comunicación en la web. > http://simplelogica.net # (+34) 985 22 12 65 > > ˇAh! y escribiendo en Logicola: http://simplelogica.net/logicola/ > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
