- From: Douglas Perreault <doug@perreault.us>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:35:39 -0500
- To: "'Andreas Prilop'" <AndreasPrilop2007@trashmail.net>, <www-validator-css@w3.org>
Thank you for the info. Your link to http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/checklist.html#css provided me some information I did not know before -- that there is a @Charset rule for CSS. I have added the content type to the text/css MIME type in IIS, but will have to wait till a better time to restart the server to see if it helps. What I have not been able to figure out, though, is why all of a sudden everything on our server (ALL files) is in UTF-8 when it used to be ISO-8859-1. I cannot find any setting anywhere that I can change this for all MIME types all at once. It is a pain because I used to be able to drag & drop a message straight from an attachment in Outlook to the web folder containing the documents to be displayed on the web. When I do it now, the file name gets changed into what looks like gibberish. I have to save the attachment to my desktop first, then drag it to he web folder. I beginning to think maybe Microsoft updated the default Windows encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 in one of their security updates and didn't tell us and there's no way to go back. The info you provided at least provides me a way to validate (by using the @charset rule). I tried opening my style sheet in a hex edit, but when I deleted the BOM and saved the file, the "@m" from the "@media screen" disappeared. It's as if Windows was now considering those characters the BOM. I would *love* to save the file as UTF-8 without the BOM -- I just can't seem to be able to do this. I would love to set the server back to using ISO-8859-1, but the only way I can see to do this is to edit each and every one of the MIME types, which of course would be a huge pain. Anyway, at least I am able to validate now -- even if it's not the solution I was looking for. Thank you. --Doug
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