11 Feb
2008
11 Feb
'08
2:08 p.m.
Chris G cl@isbd.net asked:
What are the rules that govern how a browser (Firefox in particular) decides on what Character Encoding to use?
I found this answer:
"In the case of conflict between multiple encoding declarations, precedence rules apply to determine which declaration wins out. For XHTML and HTML, the precedence is as follows, with 1 being the highest:
1. HTTP Content-Type 2. XML declaration 3. meta charset declaration 4. link charset attribute "
at http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#Slide0400
Hope that helps,
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