Validator accepts malformed "charset" parameter

From: Christoph Schneegans <Christoph@Schneegans.de> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:05:21 GMT To: <www-validator@w3.org> Message-ID: <e1kf5h.d0.1@mail.christoph.schneegans.de> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:14:21 GMT

Hello!

The Validator declares

  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'foobar">
  <title></title>
  <p>

"Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!" and uses ISO-8859-1 encoding despite the
malformed "charset" parameter, cf.
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://schneegans.de/temp/malformed-meta-charset.html>.
I don't think this is good behavior.

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