Re: No Character Encoding detected!

From: Liam Quinn (liam@htmlhelp.com)
Date: Mon, Sep 24 2001

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    Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:28:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
To: Gannon Dick <gdick@gte.net>
cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0109242327520.3055-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Subject: Re: No Character Encoding detected!

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Gannon Dick wrote:

> With the XHTML 1.1 DTD, this is successfully auto-detected:
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> This is not detected, although I think it should be:
> <meta name="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> I have no idea why.  Anybody know?

You used the "name" attribute instead of "http-equiv".  Content-Type is an
HTTP header, so you need to use "http-equiv".

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Liam Quinn