Re: Doesn't validate online, but pasted View Source does

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Mark Rae wrote:

> When I do that, it looks like the validator is ignoring the <meta> tag
> which specifies the charset - is that normal...?

Everybody expects the Spanish^W encoding in the HTTP header.
<meta http-equiv> is only a fake - it is a fake for the encoding
(charset), for content-language, for everything.

http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/meta-http-equiv.1
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/meta-http-equiv.2

Read  http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset
how to set up your server correctly.