- From: Michæl Rolfe <mumble@mweb.co.za>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:29:07 +0200
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <000401c154d3$7d990ee0$5dca07c4@pcnotnamedyet>
While attempting to validate a page, (under <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">) that accidentally had both the following tags in the <HEAD> section:
<META
HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"
CONTENT="text/html;
CHARSET=iso-8859-1"
>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;">
I received the following error message:
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Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character encoding yet, or you have specified a non-existent character encoding (often a misspelling).
The detected character encoding was "http".
The error was "".
If you believe the character encoding to be valid you can submit a request for that character encoding (see the feedback page for details) and we will look into supporting it in the future.
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This error message was not helpful in tracking the error and I would be pleased if the validator became smarter at detecting duplicate tags at, say, a pre-processor stage.
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[ Michael Rolfe mailto:mumble@mweb.co.za ]
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Received on Sunday, 14 October 2001 13:15:18 UTC