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JavaScript Examples Bible: The Essential Companion to JavaScript Bible
Example
Use The Evaluator (Chapter 13 in the JavaScript Bible) to experiment with the
charset property. To see the default setting applied to the page, enter the following
statement into the top text box:
document.charset
If you are running IE5+ for Windows 98 and you enter the following statement,
the browser will apply a different character set to the page:
document.charset = “iso-8859-2”
If your version of Windows does not have that character set installed in the system,
the browser may ask permission to download and install the character set.
characterSet
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Example
Use The Evaluator (Chapter 13 in the JavaScript Bible) to experiment with the
characterSet property in NN6. To see the default setting applied to the page,
enter the following statement into the top text box:
document.characterSet
cookie
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Example
Experiment with the last group of statements in Listing 18-3 to create, retrieve,
and delete cookies. You can also experiment with The Evaluator by assigning a
name/value pair string to document.cookie, and then examining the value of the
cookie property.
defaultCharset
document.defaultCharset
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