Re: Charset labelling (Was: Comments on: "Character Set" Considered Harmful)

Joe English (joe@trystero.art.com)
Thu, 27 Apr 95 21:12:04 EDT

bobj@netscape.com (Bob Jung) wrote:

> NEW PROPOSAL:
> [...]
> I propose the following usage for charset labeling:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type contents="text/html; charset=iso-2022-j
> p">

One small problem with this scheme:

To determine the character set and encoding you must parse
the document, and you can't parse the document until you've
determined the character set and encoding.

--joe@art.com