- From: John Middleton <jmiddlet@sedl.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Message-Id: <v04220801b7ac53f0e5f1@[198.214.140.30]>
Greetings,
In attempting to build Spanish web pages I encountered a problem
during printing from (Netscape 4.x on Macintosh OS). I found that
Netscape (Mac) would render the characters on screen, though would
not print correctly when using charset=iso-8859-1.
I searched the web for other Spanish sites specifying a meta
http-equiv character set, unsuccessfully.
I found charset=iso-10646-1 on W3C website
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/intro.html#h-2.3.1).
This seemed to fix the previous printing problem that correctly
displays and prints, however when validating at W3C I get the
following error:
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Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (HURLinux) mod_perl/1.21
Character encoding: iso-10646-1
A fatal error occurred when attempting to transliterate the document
charset. Either we do not support this character encoding yet, or you
have specified a non-existent
character encoding (typically a misspelling such as "iso8859-1" for
"iso-8859-1").
The detected charset was "iso-10646-1".
The error was "".
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QUESTION 1:
I am writing asking those with more experienced if this character set
declaration is correct?
I am wanting the Spanish language allowing the display of special
characters (eg. í and ñ ) during printing.
IE doesn't seem to have this problem.
Also
QUESTION 2:
I assume I can validate such pages with "charset=iso-8859-1" then
change it to "charset=iso-8859-1" to assure conformance to W3C HTML.
If you care to see a sample HTML page:
<http://www.ncddr.org/temp/>http://www.ncddr.org/temp/
Your time is respected and appreciated, thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
John M.
e-mail: jmiddlet@sedl.org
PS. I am not subscribed to this list a response or
guidance/reassurance directly (via e-mail) is appreciated.
Received on Tuesday, 28 August 2001 22:41:54 UTC