[Bug 1833] Wrong ISO-8859-1 enconding behaviour on "Direct input"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1833





------- Additional Comments From ot@w3.org  2005-09-21 22:09 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> I do not agree that the content should be treated as utf-8. In my opinion it
> would seriously degrade the use of "Direct input", since you cannot validate
> content containing other encoding than utf-8.

Yes, it should. Regardless of what encoding the document you are trying to validate is in, since the 
form on the validator's site is in utf-8, when you copy and paste your source into the form's text area, 
then it "becomes" utf-8.

See also Comment #1.

> From a user perspective I don't see why the "Direct input" should be any less
> usable than file upload or URL validation. 

Direct input is different from the other methods because there is no "server" sending the content along 
with HTTP information, it's just a text string being sent with a form. It means that the logic to process 
this content is slightly different from the other input methods. However, your assumption that it would 
have any effect on usability is based on a misunderstanding.

Received on Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:09:32 UTC