- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:10:22 +0200
- To: "''" <brewhaha@home.ecn.ab.ca>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 12.03.01 at 17:45, '' <brewhaha@home.ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > The validator seems to be insisting that I receive UTF-8, and Lynx >doesn't support it (can't support it without terminal software), so it >asks me to download documents from the validator (AltaVista's dijital >translator is just as arrogant). I hav iso-8859-1 selected in Lynx as my >preferred character set (font). The validator doesn't ask for that >information before delivering text/html;charset=utf-8. Yeah, we should probably check for preferred (or supported) client charset and convert it before returning results. Not sure how critical that is since UTF-8 is a superset of US-ASCII (IIRC) and most UAs can deal with it, but heeding client preferences is obviously preferable in this case.
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