James Justin Harrell schrieb:
> The HTML 4.01 specification claims that the value of
> the script element's type attribute should specify a
> content type, and that a content type is a MIME type.
> 
> It references RFC2046
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046 ) which specifies
> that text media types (text/***) should be treated as
> US-ASCII by default.

And HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616) defaults to ISO-8859-1.

> However, if the value of the type attribute should
> really be treated as a MIME type, it's strange that
> the script element has a charset attribute since MIME
> types can also specify a character encoding.

Not a MIME type can specify a character encoding, but a Content-Type 
message field can specify a character encoding via the charset parameter.

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