James Kass wrote on 09/26/2003 01:46:43 AM: > But, this simply isn't the case with Doug Ewell's web pages. Doug's > pages are properly encoded using the world's standard for text > encoding and properly tagged. The server isn't performing any > conversion, it's just adulterating the content of the web pages > by adding an incorrect protocol resulting in the display of > mojibake.
Doug's server may be doing the wrong thing, but that isn't a counterargument to the general principle of whether the browser should believe what the server says or what the document says about the encoding. That was the question to which I and, I think, Jon were responding. Peter