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javascript document charset

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

charset	Firefox/Netscape/NN n/a IE 4 Chrome/Safari/DOM n/a
	Read/Write
Indicates the character encoding of the document's content. This property is dropped from IE 6 for Windows in favor of the document.defaultCharset property. For Netscape 6, use the document.characterSet property.

Example

if (document.charset == "csISO5427Cyrillic") { // process for Cyrillic charset }

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

Default
Determined by browser.

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