- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:28:36 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Cary Bush wrote: > I have just completed a Japanese Web site using CHARSET=x-sjis and tried to > validate via http://validator.w3.org/ You should use shift_jis, which is listed as an option in the validator's extended interface, hence presumably supported by the validator. And shift_jis is the standardized name for the encoding. Any encoding name that begins by x- is by definition nonstandard, to be used by private agreements only. The authoritative list of encoding (or "charset") names is the IANA list at http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets I've composed an alphabetically ordered list from it: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/sorted.html I didn't find an explicit list of the encoding names recognized by the W3C validator, but the list of options in the select element at http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html might be expected to list the recognized and supported names, and only them. > It does not validate as it goes beyond the coding into the content. Pardon? I can't see what you mean by that. Please specify the URL if problems remain. Also specify how you used the validator - the extended interface lets you specify the encoding manually, which is useful if your server does not send an adequate Content-Type header that specifies the encoding. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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