On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 05:06, Tony Mechelynck
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23/07/10 20:06, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>> <meta/> may actually appear anywhere in the document, if places is
>> referring to HTML processors (which of course don’t have to respect
>> it).
> <meta> in an HTML document MUST be in the <head> part, which MUST be before
> the <body> part — IOW, pretty near the top. In addition, the description of
> the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"> tag, which is where the charset may
> appear, says that it SHOULD be as near the top as possible; in practice,
> that would mean immediately after the <head> opening tag.
MUST, when it comes to processing HTML, is a very loose requirement.
How near the top would you say it comes in the following document?
<html>
<head>
<title>…</title>
<link …/>
<link …/>
<meta …/>
</head>
<body/>
</html>
Oops, nearer the end. You’re missing the point.
> 'fileencoding' shouldn't be set by a modeline because the modeline will set
> the encoding-for-writing after (possibly) getting the encoding-for-reading
> wrong, so you wouldn't even know if you've _got_ it wrong.
My suggestion was that 'fileencoding' would, if found in a modeline
while trying to determine the input encoding, be used as a hint. I
don’t see how this could have eluded you.
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