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Best Practice N°9- LevelLevel 1- Section code
Description
The source code of the pages contains information relative to the character set which is used.
Objectives
Enable satisfactory off-line browsing of pages by indicating the character set to the navigator.
Possible technical solutions:
The <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" ...> element is set according to the effective document encoding and to the document MIME type in the form:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">en HTML ;<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />ou<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1" />en XHTML.
Both the W3C and the WASPhave published tutorials dealing with this question:
Control methods:
Look at the source code of the page and search for the appropriate HTML meta tag.
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