RE: Embarrassing typo!

From: Bailey, Bruce (Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov)
Date: Fri, Apr 20 2001

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    From: "Bailey, Bruce" <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>
    To: "'Terje Bless'" <link@tss.no>
    Cc: "'gerald et al.'" <www-validator@w3.org>
    Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:31:14 -0400
    Subject: RE: Embarrassing typo!
    
    Gerald, group:  My apologies for the newly gaff.
    Terje:  I assume you don't mind two copies?
    
    Okay, here's a real issue:    The W3C validator doesn't support
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
    charset=iso-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1">
    and erroneous reports a "fatal error".  That charset is valid and
    registered, reference URL:
    <http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets>
    One page, albeit modest, that uses this charset is at URL:
    <http://www.cat.cc.md.us/~bbailey/>
    
    The WDG HTML Validator doesn't have this problem.
    
    I believe the charset to be valid and I respectfully submit a request for
    that character set.  Please look into supporting it in the future.
    
    Thanks very much.
    
    > ----------
    > From: 	Terje Bless
    > Sent: 	Friday, April 20, 2001 7:51 PM
    > To: 	Tangina Barrows
    > Cc: 	Bailey, Bruce; 'www-validator@w3.org'
    > Subject: 	Re: Embarrassing typo!
    > 
    > [ BTW, there's no point CCing Gerald. He reads the list and takes ]
    > [ action as appropriate and time allows. CCing him directly just  ]
    > [ makes him read the message twice leaving less time to actually  ]
    > [ work on the Validator.                                          ]