On 2010-09-17 17:04:05 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > I'd have agreed, except that in a previous discussion on lynx's mailing list > I recall that the newest interpretations are telling browsers to interpret > charset=ISO-8859-1 as if it were cp-1252 anyway.
Only with a HTML5 parser. > Just to check, I viewed this testcase in Opera and Firefox. > Both show a Euro symbol... I don't know about Opera, but Firefox now has a HTML5 parser for text/html (non-critical bugs in FF 3.x will not be fixed). And if the page is served as application/xhtml+xml, Firefox does not display a Euro symbol (because the XML parser is used, and the HTML5 parsing rules do not apply). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
