encoding question

[derek]

i am reading that the A tag has an "charset" attribute. according to the w3c recommendation

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1.5

user agents should be able to load the needed resources to properly decode the page or
at least warn the user that the document will be unreadable.

I am trying to test this to see if any user agent actually does this. I wanted to make a link to
http://www.yahoo.co.jp
but what encoding do i use? inthe charset attribute to test this out?
If i look in the target document i see charset of utf8.
So, basically i'm looking for a way to test if any browser supports what the w3c recommends.
thanks.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit derek:

i am reading that the A tag has an "charset" attribute.

It simply isn't supported by browsers, and it wasn't a great idea from
the beginning.

 

[derek]

Scripsit derek:
It simply isn't supported by browsers, and it wasn't a great idea from
the beginning.

ok, well i was hoping to at least come up with a test case for some
documentation i have to write to prove that it doesnt work for
a set of different browsers. if there is no expected behavior and
no browser supports it in any way, then it makes it impossible
to write a test case for it.
thanks for the help.

 

[Anon]

22 Feb 2008,derek in

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