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Peter J. Holzer schrieb:
>> Scenario 2:
>> >- HTTP returns mimetype=text/html; charset=<encoding>
>> >     fetched from the HTML file meta tag.
> Which web server does this? I think CERN httpd did, back in the 1990's,
> but I don't think any of the current crop of servers does, at least not
> without some extra plugins. Normally the charset is taken from the
> server config.

Its the only way to retrieve the charset:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#section-5.1

Its also the only way to set the chartset in dynamic pages.
For example in JSP one has to do the following:

<%@page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

There is a header field Content-Encoding, which
is not what Roedy wants I guess. Since the term
"Encoding" refers to compression here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression

I guess Roedy wants the charset.

Bye