Re: [tlug] jp encoding

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> writes:

    Jim> The *standard* is to use meta tags.

The *standard* is to use a server that does encoding negotiation, and
emits HTTP Content-Type headers with a charset parameter.  HTTP-EQUIV
is a deprecated facility (actually, it was born deprecated).

However, the encoding attribute of the XML declaration _is_ a required
standard facility.  Yay! XML!  Yay, XHTML!

    Jim> A standard mostly honoured in the breach.

But this still applies.  Except that most people who write XHTML on
purpose run validators on their documents.



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