[Bug 5992] Validator ignores HTML5 encoding declaration

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5992





--- Comment #5 from Dean Edridge <dean@dean.org.nz>  2009-03-22 09:35:24 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > The problem is in the HTML::Encoding perl module used by the validator. 
> 
> > I can't see how that can be the problem. 
> [snip]
> > as soon as the validator sees the
> > new HTML doctype (introduced in HTML5 (<!DOCTYPE html>)) it should pass the
> > whole document over to the validator.nu 
> 
> The validator 1) needs to know the encoding before it can preparse the document
> and detect that doctype and 2) needs to know and decode the bytes before it can
> pass the document to the validator.nu engine. It is not “just” a
> redirection. 
> 

I think problems like this are going to be never ending, therefore I think the
W3C should use the validator.nu as for the "front end" of its validation
service. Has this been considered before?


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