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javascript document characterSet

@March 15, 2008, 1:22 a.m.

characterSet	Firefox/Netscape/NN 6 IE n/a Chrome/Safari/DOM n/a
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Indicates the character encoding of the document's content.

Example

if (document.characterSet == "ISO-8859-1") { // process for standard Latin character set }

Value
Case-insensitive alias from the character set registry (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets).

Default
Determined by browser.

javascript document charset