Re: Better internationalization of validator

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Mon, Jun 11 2001

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    Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:48:08 +0900
    To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
    From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
    Cc: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
    Subject: Re: Better internationalization of validator
    
    At 05:00 01/05/22 +0200, Terje Bless wrote:
    >On 22.05.01 at 10:27, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote:
    
    > >- <meta ... charset over multiple lines.
    >
    >I've been meaning to take *all* that code out back and shoot it for a while
    >now. It's been postponed because it's rather drastic and needs some serious
    >testing to avoid snafus and I'm desperately short on time ATM. The New Deal
    >is to use HTML::Parser for all such tasks (i.e. DOCTYPE sniffing and such).
    
    That would deal with <meta, but not with <?xml, I guess.
    Also, we may have to do some pre-sniffing anyway in order
    to deal with UTF-16 and EBCDIC.
    
    
    Regards,    Martin.