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

Bill Mason data at data1701d.com
Thu Jun 28 16:10:25 CDT 2001


At 01:39 PM 6/28/01, rudy wrote:
>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

FWIW, CNET Builder.com has an article from last year about character sets 
where they recommended having that META tag there.

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http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/Tagmania/012400/ss02.html
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