- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@zoy.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:03:13 +0900
- To: Andreas Prilop <AndreasPrilop2006@trashmail.net>
- Cc: www-validator-css@w3.org
Hi Andreas, all. On Dec 1, 2006, at 23:14 , Andreas Prilop wrote: > Please give a real example where non-ASCII characters are needed > in *style sheets*. For an occasional character, you can still use > the "backslash escape" references. Otherwise, feel free to use > UTF-8. I have seen quite a few examples of font names in Japanese in CSS style sheets, hence the need to save (and serve) said stylesheets in utf-8. > Both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are fine as long as you define > such encodings (charset) in the HTTP header. > http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset > http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/checklist.html > >> Of course, neither of those requires BOMs... > > Exactly. Right, but unless I am mistaken, UTF-8 with BOM, albeit not really useful, is not forbidden, and therefore the validator's crashing on it is a problem. I talked to a few people who know Java much better than I do, we'll see if we can get this fixed. -- olivier
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