Re: +n- Flaw in IE

>Namely, what is your proposed algorithm for such case? "No matter what
it is not UTF-7"? And why not?

I would propose that IE read the http-equiv meta tag in the body before
trying to figure out by itself what the encoding is by parsing the page
contents.

As I mentioned before, there are cases where there will be no
http-header such as when the file is served up from the local file
system. In these cases, there is the just the file header so the only
way to avoid this flaw in IE in these cases is to ensure that the files
are hard encoded in an encoding other that ASCII.

BTW - I have tried <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1"> as well and on an ASCII file, IE still tries to
auto-detect utf-7.
Received on Tue Jan 17 17:14:13 2006