Re: The error was: utf8 "\xBA" does not map to Unicode

From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:28:53 +0200 To: www-validator@w3.org Message-ID: <fd804f$vum$1@sea.gmane.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 24 September 2007 09:31:45 GMT

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> The degree sign is U+00B0, representable in windows-1252 as octet B0
> and generally (in any encoding) in HTML as &#176; or, alternatively,
> as &deg;.

Thanks, I didn't check the code and missed the visual difference 
between &ordm; and &deg;.  

When there are, as you found, more windows-1252 characters, and the
Web server doesn't insist on any charset, then replacing utf-8 by
windows-1252 in the meta-element is clearly the best solution.

 Frank