[thelist] meta tag for charset=iso-8859-1

[Erika Meyer]

a reason NOT to use it?  I dunno, I don't always use it.  I don't use 
it on my XHTML pages (I see your syntax) and have no problems...

But check this:
try to validate this site:
http://www.wise-women.org/

at the w3c html validator.

And you'll get this response:

<validator.w3.org sez>
A fatal error occurred when attempting to transliterate the document charset.
<snip>
The error was "iso8859-1 undefined; replace by iso-8859-1".
<snip>
If you believe the charset to be valid you can submit a request for 
that character encoding (see the feedback page for details) and we 
will look into supporting it in the future.
</sez>

Erika


>is there a reason not to use this meta tag? --
>
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
>           content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

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