[Javascript] Re: Charset (sort-of OFF_TOPIC for js)

[Bill Moseley]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:39:16AM -0400, tedd wrote:
> However, the whole situation seems a bit redundant, doesn't it? You 
> have to both save your document in the right charset encoding AND 
> then again restate the charset encoding in the document. Why twice?

Twice?

> Is it that some browsers can detect the encoding and others can't?

What should display for a byte with a value of 192?  You have to tell
the browser how to translate the string of bytes into characters --
and that's what the charset setting does.

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Bill Moseley
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