Name

ACCEPT-CHARSET — NN n/a IE n/a HTML 4

Synopsis

ACCEPT-CHARSET=”MIMETypeList"

Optional

A server advisory (for servers that are equipped to interpret the information) about which character sets it must receive from a client form.

Example

<FORM ACCEPT-CHARSET="it, es" ...>...</FORM>

Value

Case-insensitive alias from the character set registry (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets). Multiple character sets may be delimited by commas. The reserved value, "unknown", is supposed to represent the character set that the server used to generate the form for the client.

Default

"unknown"

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