John Cowan wrote: > It's worse than that. If the HTTP header says "text/xml" or > "text/html", > and no charset information is provided, a fully conforming browser > MUST treat this as if the charset "us-ascii" is specified.
Nit: this is not the case for text/html, which fortunately took exception from the MIME specs on this. From the HTML 4.01 spec, 5.2.2: "Therefore, user agents must not assume any default value for the "charset" parameter." > That's just insane, but such are the rules. Correct for text/xml. Better not use that, then, and favor application/xml. -- Fran�ois Yergeau
