Unicode: Unicode and Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)

When IE6 opens an HTML page it determines the file's encoding from either its HTTP header or a META tag like this one.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">

When IE6 opens local text files however no HTTP headers or META tags are available. Instead it appears to assume the file is encoded in the system's active ANSI code page unless a BOM character exists to indicate otherwise. In some cases the encoding can be specified manually using the

View / Encoding

menu item.

The following chart lists test results observed using various file encodings (Internet Explorer 6.0 tested).

Encoding	Byte Order Mark	Test Data	Without View / Encoding	With View / Encoding	IE6 Encoding Selected
cp850		abc-àèìòù©	Fail	Fail	none found
windows-1252		abc-àèìòù©	Pass	Pass
UTF-8		abc-àèìòù©-뮻뮼뮽	Fail	Pass	Unicode (UTF-8)
UTF-8	UTF-8 BOM	abc-àèìòù©-뮻뮼뮽	Pass	Pass
UTF-16LE		abc-àèìòù©-뮻뮼뮽	Fail	Fail	none found
UTF-16	LE	abc-àèìòù©-뮻뮼뮽	Pass	Pass
UTF-16BE		abc-àèìòù©-뮻뮼뮽	Fail	Fail	none found
UTF-16	BE	abc-àèìòù©-뮻뮼뮽	Pass	Pass

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