- From: Olivier Thereaux via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:06:51 +0000
- To: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/validator/htdocs/docs
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv20248/htdocs/docs
Modified Files:
help.html
Log Message:
simplified help text for missing charset
Index: help.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/validator/htdocs/docs/help.html,v
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diff -u -d -r1.30 -r1.31
--- help.html 26 Jul 2005 23:15:04 -0000 1.30
+++ help.html 24 Jul 2006 07:06:49 -0000 1.31
@@ -421,32 +421,24 @@
<p>An HTML document should be served along with its character encoding.</p>
- <p> Specifying a character encoding is normally done in the web server
- configuration file or administration program. The <a
- href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr
- title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a> <a
- href="http://www.w3.org/International/"><abbr
- title="Internationalization">I18N</abbr> Activity</a> has collected
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset"
- title="A Few Tips On How To Specify The Character Encoding">a few
- tips on how to do this</a> in popular web server implementations.
-</p>
- <p>
- <a href="http://www.iana.org/"><abbr
- title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">IANA</abbr></a>
- maintains the list of <a
- href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">official
- names for character sets</a> and the <abbr
- title="Web Design Group">WDG</abbr> has some <a
- href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html">information
- to help you correctly specify the character encoding</a>.
- </p>
+ <p>Specifying a character encoding is typically done by the web server
+ configuration, by the scripts that put together pages, and inside the
+ document itself. <a href="http://www.iana.org/"><abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">IANA</abbr></a>
+ maintains the list of
+ <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">official names for character
+ encodings</a> (called charsets in this context). You can choose from a number
+ of encodings, though we recommend UTF-8 as particularly useful.</p>
+
+ <p>The W3C <abbr title="Internationalization">I18N</abbr> Activity has collected a
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset">few tips on
+ how to do this</a>.</p>
+
<p>
To quickly check whether the document would validate after addressing
the missing character encoding information, you can use the "Encoding"
form control (accesskey "2") earlier in the page to force an encoding
override to take effect. "iso-8859-1" (Western Europe and North America)
- and "utf-8" (Universal, but not commonly used in legacy documents) are
+ and "utf-8" (Universal, and more commonly used in recent documents) are
common encodings if you are not sure what encoding to choose.
</p>
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