[TIKA-892] Tika does not use the HTML5 meta charset tag when determining charset

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Component/s: parser

Environment

Any

• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Chris Jones
• Created: 11/Apr/12 13:49
• Updated: 08/Jul/12 23:27
• Resolved: 08/Jul/12 23:27

Description

HTML5 introduced a new way of specifying the charset for an HTML document:
<meta charset="utf-8"/>

The code in HtmlParser only looks for the HTML4 style meta http-equiv tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />