Meta and HTTP negotiation

HTTP servers may use the property name specified by the http-equiv attribute to create a header in the HTTP response.

One significant internationalization use of this is to specify the encoding via http-equiv:


  <meta
    http-equiv="Content-Type"
    content="text/html;
    charset=ISO-8859-1"
   />

See further the Internationalization tutorial

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Markus Gylling
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