27 May
2005
27 May
'05
12:03 p.m.
On May 27, 2005, at 13:06, Björn Wolf wrote:
As far is i know even IE6 has problems with encodings served from a local disk (without response headers). So it seems IE does not recognize a given charset in the local HTML file [...]
I had a friend test this (since I have no PC) and he says that it does use the encoding in the meta header.
Of course if you leave out the encoding from the meta header, IE can only use a heuristic or fall back to the default system encoding. But that's certainly not an argument against utf-8! ;)