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Re: no encoding specified when creating XHTML documents

From: Vincent QUINT <Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:08:26 +0200
Message-Id: <200008231608.SAA17166@lifou.inrialpes.fr>
To: Catherine CHAT <Catherine.Chat@via-business.fr>
cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Catherine,

If your documents are written in French, I suggest you set a
lang attribute on the <html> or <body> element. Use the Attribute
button to do that. Then, when you save a document, the encoding
is added to the XML declaration and a <meta http-equiv...> element
is generated with the right charset.

Vincent.

Catherine CHAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Amaya to create XHTML documents containing french and thus use the
> ISO-8859-1 charset. 
> 
> The problem is that Amaya does not insert the encoding in the resulting
> XHTML document:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
> Transitional//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> 
> So my document does not render well with another XML browser. But it's OK
> if I add the encoding:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
> "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> 
> 
> Is there something to add in the document to make Amaya generate the
> encoding ?
> Thanks,
> Catherine.
> 
> 
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