Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Rob (<nom...@example.com>) wrote:
>
>>>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>
>>>>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
>>>> charset=windows-1252">
>
>>> Nothing has changed.  The HTTP Content-Type header has aways taken 
>>> precedence 
>>> over the HTML meta declaration, and not only in SM.  
>> 
>> Then why is the page shown in UTF-8 while it should be windows-1252?
>
> It should /not/ be Windows-1252.  The W3C state that the http
> content-type trumps the meta content-type [1], so the document should
> be rendered in UTF-8.

That is wrong, isn't it?
This meta http-equiv has the specific purpose of setting the content
type in cases where the http headers from the server are wrong and
cannot be easily corrected.
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