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Anchor.charset (Property)

This property indicates the character encoding of the document at the location specified by the URL.

Availability:

DOM level - 1
JavaScript - 1.5
JScript - 5.0
Internet Explorer - 5.0
Netscape - 6.0
Property/method value type:String primitive
JavaScript syntax:-myAnchor.charset

This would contain the character set being used by the document. For example the value "iso-8859-1" is likely to be returned, but the local variant of the browser and OS may affect the value you get.

This property might contain a value such as:

csISO5427Cyrillic

Details of other aliases can be located at the IANA registry. In that registry are listed the names and aliases of a wide variety of character sets. Even though there are nearly 800 names and aliases, it seems on inspection that there are items missing.

See also:LINK.charset, Url.charset

Web-references:

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets

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JavaScript Programmer's Reference, Cliff Wootton
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