[whatwg] Charset sniffing from XML prolog

Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 04:34:02 PDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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).

Firefox 3.7a1pre shows UTF-8 on these on the Mac.

Regards,
Silvia.



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