Re: Better internationalization of validator from Martin Duerst on 2001-06-11 (www-validator@w3.org from June 2001)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:48:08 +0900
To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
Cc: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010611164617.06082cc0@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

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.

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