Somewhat ironically, both Firefox and Internet Explorer, on my machine at least, detect this page is encoded with ISO-8859-1 and cp-1252 respectively, instead of UTF-8. It seems they both ignore the XML prolog which is the only place where the encoding is stated.
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John H. Jenkins Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 1:15 AM To: Unicode Mailing List Subject: Re: xkcd: LTR Or, if one prefers: http://www.井作恆.net/XKCD/1137.html On 2012年11月21日, at 上午10:22, Deborah Goldsmith <golds...@apple.com<mailto:golds...@apple.com>> wrote: http://xkcd.com/1137/ Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-) Debbie