- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:11:31 +0900
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>, <www-validator@w3.org>, Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Cc: <nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de>
At 00:22 02/01/05 +0000, Nick Kew wrote: >In news:040120022151192238%andreas.prilop@altavista.net, >Andreas Prilop reports an apparent problem: > > > The W3C validator somehow "swallows" characters 246 and 247 > > in Macintosh encoding: > > > <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/test.htm> > > <http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/test.htm> > > >On investigation, I find that iconv to macintosh to utf-8 runs >apparently successfully, I just did wget and iconv on the validator.w3.org machine. iconv -f MACINTOSH -t UTF-8 <test.htm produced the null bytes. It is clearly a bug in iconv. For iconv --version, I get: iconv (GNU libc) 2.1.3 Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Ulrich Drepper. Gerald, I suggest we upgrade to the newest version of iconv and then see whether the problems are gone. Regards, Martin. >but the utf-8 generated appears to contain >spurious null bytes at the characters Andreas highlights, >and in any case causes OpenSP to choke. > >Can anyone throw further light on this? > > >-- >Nick Kew > >Site Valet - the mark of Quality on the Web. ><URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>
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