- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:56:17 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Andreas Prilop wrote:
>> A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character
>> encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character
>> encoding ("iso-8859-3") yet, or you have specified a non-existent
>> character encoding (often a misspelling).
>
> Strange! The same happens for
> http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/south-european.html3
Besides, it does not help to select iso-8859-3 from the encoding menu or
to make the server send HTTP headers with alias names for iso-8859-3 such
as iso_8859-3 and latin3. (I thought they might have just mistyped the
encoding name or used an alias.)
I guess the validator just doesn't work as advertized in this respect.
I'd suggest the quick fix of removing iso-8859-3 from the list of
supported encodings in the documentation and in the encoding menu.
Whether iso-8859-3 is really _needed_ is debatable. It might be better not
to support it, thereby encourageing authors to move to other encodings.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Received on Friday, 10 February 2006 13:56:26 UTC