- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:28:04 +0900
- To: jeffs@kant.ee.washington.edu, www-validator@w3.org
Hello Jeff, At 17:01 02/03/27 -0500, Jeff Silverman wrote: >I tried to run a web page Can you give the URI? >with the content type meta tag of : > ><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ASCII"> > >and the validator said: > >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 "ascii". > >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. > > >Is ASCII now considered passe? I spent a good chunk of life memorizing >ASCII codes.... It's not considered passe, it's just that its official name on the Internet is US-ASCII (capitalization to your liking). I have added 'ascii' to the list of 'frequent wrong spellings of character encodings'. Please try out http://validator.w3.org:8188, where you should see a different error message now. I don't know how long it will take for this to turn up in the official version. Regards, Martin.
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