[thelist] Character Encoding Mismatch

Timothy J. Luoma lists at tntluoma.com
Sat Oct 12 15:22:00 CDT 2002


Clive R Sweeney wrote:

> "What you should do in that case is either remove the explicit <meta>
> element character encoding declaration from your copy of the document,
> or change it to match the character encoding declared in the web
> server's HTTP headers."
>
> Is this good advice, or should I leave the character encoding as it is?


a) you should have them match, at least
b) you might consider dropping the META tag
c) if you drop the META tag and someone saves the page, it no longer has
the character encoding information with it
d) unless you use extended UTF-8 characters in the document itself, (c)
won't matter all that much in reality

TjL

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