- From: SherLok Merfy <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 04:50:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > On 12.03.01 at 17:45, '' <brewhaha@home.ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > > > The validator seems to be insisting that I receive UTF-8, and Lynx > >doesn't support it (can't support it without terminal software), so it > >asks me to download documents from the validator (AltaVista's dijital > >translator is just as arrogant). I hav iso-8859-1 selected in Lynx as my > >preferred character set (font). The validator doesn't ask for that > >information before delivering text/html;charset=utf-8. > > Yeah, we should probably check for preferred (or supported) client charset > and convert it before returning results. Not sure how critical that is > since UTF-8 is a superset of US-ASCII (IIRC) and most UAs can deal with it, > but heeding client preferences is obviously preferable in this case. I'd appreciate it. No conversion is necessary for English.
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