- From: Andreas Prilop <AndreasPrilop2007@trashmail.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:50:24 +0200 (MEST)
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
- cc: Jan Eliasen <jan@eliasen.dk>
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jan Eliasen wrote:
> When you say that I should define the charset for my css files,
> you are tallking about doing it in the html, right?
Wrong! I gave you an example:
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/dir-ltr.css
It has
Content-Type: text/css; charset=utf-8
See also
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/bom.css
> Why not use a BOM with utf-8?
A BOM is pointless with UTF-8 because there is *no* byte order
in UTF-8.
> it even helps the programs that must read the data to know
> it is utf-8 encoded.
No. Specify the encoding (charset) properly.
> And I agree ASCII should be just fine - and in my case, it is.
Almost all CSS files contain only ASCII characters. So why use
UTF-8 at all?
> Only problem is that it is automatically saved by VS.NET
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> as utf-8 with a BOM
If you cannot change/adjust this, then we have another example
of unusable software from Microsoft ...
> -----Original Message-----
... like your mailing program.
Please quote properly! For example, have a look at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html
This was written for Usenet, but applies to mailing lists
as well.
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Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:50:49 UTC