Re: [Nmh-workers] A non-complaint

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Ralph Corderoy writes:
> Hi David,
> 
> Ken's pointed out the <meta> wasn't in the original message;  were you
> seeing that in Chrome's view of the source?  It might add it based on
> the default it chose.  Ken said the HTML default was Windows-1252;  it
> seems surprising Windows was ever a default.  I thought it was
> ISO-8859-1 up until HTML 5 which explicitly states it's UTF-8 along with
> a system for guessing based on the byte values.

As far as I know, HTML does not assume UTF-8. Before HTML5 it deferred to
the HTTP default which for a long time was ISO-8859-1 for text/html (barring
an explicit charset declaration at the HTTP level). But I think this
changed in a recent RFC. And I think HTML5 might no longer defer to HTTP in
this way, at least for documents without a charset at either level.

The Windows-1252 thing is separate: in HTML5 ISO-8859-1 is always treated
as Windows-1252, due to how common such incorrectly marked documents are on
the web.

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Anthony J. Bentley