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Re: Xhtml /CSS validator- umlaut problem

From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:17:37 +0100 (BST)
To: cwdjrx@webtv.net
cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108162314550.10360-100000@phaestos.ee.surrey.ac.uk> 
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 cwdjrx@webtv.net wrote:

>   Thank you. I have just exchanged e-mail with LLoyd Wood on the
> subject. The problem can be solved by writing "&auml;" instead  of
> "ä".
> However the question remains as to why the CSS validator requires this
> only for umlauts and not for other special character marks in French,
> etc.

what editor are you using? It strikes me that it might be writing
those other characters as non-unicode for some bizarre character-set
reason.

L.

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