- From: Michael Jackson <michael.jackson@bcs.org.uk> <michael.jackson@bcs.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:18:12 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Liam Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Michael Jackson <michael.jackson@bcs.org.uk> wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > > > > * Treasurer - BCS Newcastle & District wrote: > > > >Lynx 2.6 refuses to display the output from the validator. > > > > > > Any reason given? > > > > I just thought I'd enquire how you were getting-on with > > working out why the validation results can't be displayed > > on some browsers. > > Lynx 2.6 doesn't support the UTF-8 character encoding that the validator > returns. Lynx releases from the past 2-3 years handle it fine. > Liam, Thanks for the answer. So validator doesn't attempt backwards compatibility in at least ISO-8859-1 for browsers that don't support UTF-8? That's a great shame. What I don't understand is why when I look at: <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html> (which is the second reference to UTF-8 shown when you google for it), it says (proudly) at the end of the first para: "This web page is encoded directly in UTF-8." And Lynx show source shows: <html> <head> <title>UTF-8 Sampler</title> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> ... What I don't get is why that page displays in Lynx 2.6 `fine'*. Could not validator gracefully display the content like Kermit's UTF-8 treatise? Best regards, MJ. *The page contains samples of text in multiple languages. Obviously Lynx 2.6 fails to display the non Latin one in any readable form.
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