- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:49:04 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www validator mailing list <www-validator@w3.org>
In article news:3b69e90e$0$20962$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au , "Brucie" <no_one_is_@home.com> wrote: > IIRC i pointed out that the page didn't have a charset (the validator > didn't report one and i didn't look at the actual page to check) > however the page actually did have a charset but it was line wrapped. > i suggested un-line wrapping it and the validator then recognised it > without a problem. Oh my... You're right. I used the "validate via file upload" facility at http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html to submit the following document: <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15"> <title>Demo</title> <p>Foo!</p> The validator says in its report: Character encoding: unknown But when I do the same with the line break removed from the <meta> tag, or with the line break replaced by a space, it reports: Character encoding: iso-8859-15 So apparently the validator does not recognize the information in the <meta> tag when there is a line break. This is very strange since a line break should be equivalent to a space. I hope this is just because the validator processes such <meta> tags in some ad hoc way, since the alternative would be that it has some flaw in its fundamental parsing routines. > its a "thingy" with the validator, not the markup. It looks suspiciously like a bug to me! So I send this message to the www validator mailing list (see http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html ) too. -- Yucca, http://www.malibutelecom.com/yucca/ alias http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ Pages about Web authoring: http://www.malibutelecom.com/yucca/www.html
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