According to
Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2068),
your browser can request the document character
set by using
Accept-Charset
header field.
The example
Accept-Charset: koi8-r, windows-1251; q=0.8
koi8-r
and windows-1251
character sets
besides default
iso-8859-1
which any browser must understand.
If no quality parameter is given, 1.0 value assumed (like for
koi8-r
character set in this example). Character sets with bigger
quality values preferred.
If no Accept-Charset
field is given, any character set
is acceptable. In this case you can't tell the server that you use KOI8-R
character set and it can feed you with, say CP1251.
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