Detecting character sets in HTTP requests?

by Bill Rhodes <wrhodes(at)qualcomm.com>

Date:	Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:18:46 -0800
To:	hwg-servers(at)hwg.org
References:	strive rcbowen autometric
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Is there a way to detect what character set the browser is using during a 
GET or POST?  I don't mean the HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET environment variable, 
rather, I need a way to know what encoding they have specifically set their 
browser to.

For example, if they're using KOI8, I'd like to be able to detect that and 
differentiate them from someone using iso-8859-1.

Is there a good solution?  TIA!

-B

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