Peter Constable wrote, > Folks, feel free to spend your time bantering on about whether something > should or shouldn't do this or that. But while you're at it, if you want > to know whether the http encoding declaration is supposed to have > precedence over the encoding declaration inside the HTML doc, go read the > specs to find the definitive answer.
Here's one of the specs: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2 And, here's a page which extrapolates from the specs, please note that the "TO SUM IT ALL UP" is most instructive: http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/dec2002.html Best regards, James .
