Re: charset iso-8559-1 wrong?

From: Masayasu Ishikawa (mimasa@w3.org)
Date: Wed, Mar 21 2001

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    From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
    To: Hannes.Loeffler@uibk.ac.at
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Message-Id: <20010321225829L.mimasa@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>
    Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:58:29 +0900
    Subject: Re: charset iso-8559-1 wrong?
    
    Hannes Loeffler <Hannes.Loeffler@uibk.ac.at> wrote:
    
    > I just tried to validate the main index page of our home page.  The validator
    > complains about the charset which is set to iso-8559-1:
    > 
    > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8559-1">
    
    The corrrect charset name is "iso-8859-1", not "iso-8559-1".
    
    Regards,
    -- 
    Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
    W3C - World Wide Web Consortium