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Re: default charset broken

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 15:54:14 +0200
To: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <3ee8ee75.469902874@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de> 

* Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>>   >I maintain a small mostly static site.  the pages used to validate
>>   >fine, but in your latest update of the validator you ignore the HTTP
>>   >RFC and broke the charset detection.
>>   
>>   Could you please be more specific what is broken in what version
>>   of the MarkUp Validator?
>
>oh, sorry.  the default charset for text/* is "ISO-8859-1", but the
>validator treats it as unknown.
>
>see 3.4.1 and 3.7.1 in RFC 2616.

What about section 5.2.2 of HTML 4.01?
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