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Bug 26100 - the charset parameter doesn't override any character encoding declarations in the document, because BOMs are given precedence over the MIME layer
Summary: the charset parameter doesn't override any character encoding declarations in...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-06-15 23:16 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-08-28 18:57 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2014-06-15 23:16:53 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/iana.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#text/html
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#text/html
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
the charset parameter doesn't override any character encoding declarations in
the document, because BOMs are given precedence over the MIME layer

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Comment 1 contributor 2014-08-28 18:57:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8724.
Check-in comment: Be more precise in the description of the charset='' parameter for the text/html MIME type
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8723&to=8724