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Re: recognizing external stylesheet

From: Brant Langer Gurganus <brantgurganus2001@cherokeescouting.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:43:24 -0500
Message-ID: <3CC0C7BC.2020602@cherokeescouting.org>
To: Christoph Schneegans <Christoph@Schneegans.de>
CC: www-amaya@w3.org
In that case, could it be made easier to open and close a file in Amaya 
to remove the BOM?  Currently, it seems to be nearly impossible to do in 
Amaya.  It points to a syntax error at the very end of the file and 
doesn't seem to let me remove the character.

Christoph Schneegans wrote:

>Brant Langer Gurganus wrote:
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>>Amaya does not seem to recognize external stylesheets that have the
>>charset parameter as in "text/css; charset=UTF-8".
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>I don't think it's this parameter that irritates Amaya, but the byte
>order mark (BOM) that many editors write to UTF-8 encoded files. BTW,
>Opera suffers from the same problem.
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>There have been some discussions about the validity of BOMs in HTTP
>responses, but I'm not sure about the outcome. Maybe someone else can
>enlight me?
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>>I checked with IANA's MIME registration and it does indeed have
>>this parameter as optional.
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>Yes, it's fully legal, see
><http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#q23>.
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>Regards,
>Christoph Schneegans
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