- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:11:15 +0900
- To: "webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net" <webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net>
- Cc: "McDonald, Ira"<imcdonald@sharplabs.com>, "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 10:13 1999/12/15 -0500, Bruce Bailey wrote: > Let me ask this again, > > My pages now contain a line like > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > This is a lie, since I insist of using the forbidden ’/7/8; characters. > Is there another charset value I could use that would make everything > legal and valid? The correct, though not (yet) registered, value is windows-1252 in this case. But this does not make ’ legal in the file, it only makes a byte value of decimal 146 legal. > &8217; &8220/1; don't work with the 3x browsers. I have a LOT more Win 3x > users I am writing for and NO unix users that I know of. I have no plans > of changing my practices until either (A) Navigator starts supporting > &l/rd/squo; or (B) the W3C validator starts invalidating about my code. Do you want to say that the W3C validator does not complain about ’? In that case, it has to be fixed! Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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