how to detect the character encoding in a web page ?

[iMath]

在 2012年12月24日星期一UTC+8上午8时34分47秒，iMath写道：
> how to detect the character encoding  in a web page ?
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> such as this page 
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> http://python.org/

by the way  ,we cannot get character encoding programmatically from the mate data without knowing the  character encoding  ahead !