[whatwg] Charset sniffing from XML prolog

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Wed Oct 7 18:35:00 PDT 2009


On 10/7/09 9:29 PM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
> Using document.inputEncoding:
> http://stakface.com/pub/mango/fakexml.html
> http://stakface.com/pub/mango/fakexml_iso.html
>
> Using a degree symbol in UTF-8:
> http://stakface.com/pub/mango/fakexml2.html
> http://stakface.com/pub/mango/fakexml2_iso.html

All of those end up ISO-8859-1 for me on Mac (using default encoding of 
ISO-8859-1, auto-detect off, no extensions funny business, never visited 
the page before or anything).

-Boris


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