Lists? What Lists? (was Re: [thelist] meta tag for charset=iso-8859-1)

evolt@spinhead evolt at spinhead.com
Thu Jun 28 16:16:45 CDT 2001


Not really an answer:

According to the HTML4 spec it's not needed for HTML4 compliance

7.4.4 under 'Specifying meta data'
"User agents are not required to support meta data mechanisms.  For those
that choose to support meta data, this specification does not define how
meta data should be interepreted."

Webmonkey  Mattmarg says at
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/97/48/index1a_page6.html?tw=design

"Browsers that support the Unicode standard can be told by a document's meta
tag to render the document using a specific character encoding . . . "

If you're using the most common character set, other than 'better safe than
sorry' are there reasons to use it? [exact opposite of your question, I
think]

spinhead

p.s. Lists? What lists? Besides WM and thelist, which have you gotten
benefit from?

----- Original Message -----
From: "rudy" <r937 at interlog.com>
To: "evolt thelist" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: [thelist] meta tag for charset=iso-8859-1


> is there a reason not to use this meta tag? --
>
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
>           content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
>
> with apologies, i cannot remember where i heard it, in fact i cannot
> remember if i heard it correctly...
>
> oh heck, i cannot remember anything now except ...
>
> .. that maybe you needn't bother including this tag in your page's html,
> since that's the default header that the web server is supposed to send,
> assuming the web server has been set up correctly
>
> can anybody elaborate?  one of you servervolken?
>
>
>
> rudy
>
> i'm sure i heard it on a discussion list
>
> might even have been this one
>
> [gasp] you mean there are other lists besides thelist?
>
> yes, and it doesn't hurt to be on one or more other lists, if only for the
> constant reminder of how good thelist really is...






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