[Bug 2572] when no character encoding found, fatal_byte_error should also output charset warning

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2572

           Summary: when no character encoding found, fatal_byte_error
                    should also output charset warning
           Product: Validator
           Version: 0.7.1
          Platform: All
               URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-
                    validator/2005Dec/thread.html#msg15
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: check
        AssignedTo: ot@w3.org
        ReportedBy: ot@w3.org
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


In case no character encoding info can be found through the usual algorithms, the validator outputs a 
warning about that missing info, e.g:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fqa-dev.w3.org%2Fwmvs%2FHEAD%2Fdev%2Ftests%
2Fnocharset.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29

However, if the document has bytes that cannot be mapped as utf-8 (or whatever fallback charset), the 
fatal error message (fatal_byte_error) alone is given, without the usual warning about lack of encoding, 
which can be confusing, e.g:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/
nocharset_notutf8.html;ss

Received on Friday, 9 December 2005 05:04:22 UTC