- 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: ---- 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 "". ---- 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.
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