- From: Einar Westermann <einar.westermann@online.no>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:10:06 +0100
- To: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org>, www-validator@w3.org
But can there really be a "HTTP Content-Type field" in an upload to the validator? Einar Westermann Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > > Einar Westermann <einar.westermann@online.no> wrote in > news:3DC145D3.4A23CD5C@online.no: > > > "Note: The HTTP Content-Type field did not contain a "charset" > > attribute, but the Content-Type was one of the XML text/* > > sub-types. (...)" > > This is correct. The default value 'US-ASCII' overrides *both* the > encoding specified by the 'encoding' pseudo-attribute of the XML > declaration and the encoding specified in the 'meta' element (the > latter should have no effect for XHTML anyway). If you want to use > a different encoding than 'US-ASCII' for 'text/xml' documents, you > *have* to include a 'charset' parameter for the 'Content-Type' > header. > > But if the error message says '"charset" attribute', this is > certainly a bug. 'charset' is a parameter -- not an attribute. > > -- > Karl Ove Hufthammer
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