Re: "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 120 it contained some byte(s)that I cannot interpret as big5"; and _other_ frustrations from an Asian user. from Martin Duerst on 2002-02-06 (www-validator@w3.org from February 2002)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:19:19 +0900
To: Franklen Choi <franklen@pacific.net.hk>, www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20020206161703.034a1340@localhost>

At 03:13 02/01/15 -0500, Franklen Choi wrote:
>Example 3: W3C HTML Validation service displays the above subject
>message most of the time when my documents are sent to it, when actually
>the characters of these documents can be displayed properly by many
>browsers I test against (e.g. lynx, opera, netscape, m$ ie,
>konqueror,...)

Can you send me an URI to your pages? I'm in Japan, and quite
familiar with Asian encodings. The validator currently uses
iconv, and we have to check carefully whether there isn't an
iconv problem, too.

Regards,    Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2002 02:24:47 UTC