eb server itself wouldn't really <em>know</em> what encoding each file was written in, so it couldn't send the Content-Type header.</p>

<p>It would be convenient if you could put the Content-Type of the HTML file right in the HTML file itself, using some kind of special tag. Of course this drove purists crazy... how can you <em>read</em> the HTML file until you know what encoding it's in?! Luckily, almost every encoding in common use does the same thing with characters between 32 and 127, so you can alwa