web page, the original idea was that the web server would return a similar <strong>Content-Type</strong> http header along with the web page itself -- not in the HTML itself, but as one of the response headers that are sent before the HTML page.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This causes problems. Suppose you have a big web server with lots of sites and hundreds of pages contributed by lots of people in lots of different languages and all using whatever encoding their copy of Microsoft FrontPage saw fit to generate. The w