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-
- #include "nsISupports.idl"
-
- /**
- * The nsIDocCharset interface allows the user to view,
- * hint, and set which converter is used to read the document's
- * data.
- *
- * <P>Inside Mozilla all text is encoded as Unicode. By standardizing
- * on Unicode every piece of code that handles characters no longer
- * needs to:
- *
- * Have access to a character encoding parameter.
- * Ask is the data stateful?
- * Ask is the data single byte?
- * Ask is the data multi-byte?
- * If multi-byte: have access to a routine that can
- * determine how many bytes in the current character.
- *
- * When the document is read in a converter is used to convert
- * the document's data to Unicode.
- *
- * nsIDocCharset provides the ability to:
- *
- * See what converter was used when inputting the documents
- * data.
- *
- * Override the character set for documents where the specified
- * fallback, or auto-detected character set is incorrect
- *
- */
- [scriptable, uuid(9c18bb4e-1dd1-11b2-bf91-9cc82c275823)]
- interface nsIDocCharset : nsISupports
- {
-
- /**
- * Get/sets the encoding (converter) used to read the
- * document. Get returns the encoding used. Set forces
- * (overrides) the encoding. After forcing the charset the
- * embedding application will need to cause the data to be
- * reparsed in order to update the DOM / display.
- *
- * A force also sets the fallback encoding for this frame.
- */
- attribute string charset;
-
- };
-
-
-