Re: http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html

Michael Jackson wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Sascha Claus wrote:
>><http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html>
>>Content-Type: text/html
>>
>><http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://validator.w3.org/>
>>Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>>
>>Perhaps Lynx doesn't support <meta http-equiv="..">.
> 
> 	Sorry, that went over my head.  If you could be patient with
> 	my ignorance on such matters and perhaps attempt a little
> 	more helpful reply.  TIA.  -MJ.


The validator sends the encoding/charset as HTTP Header, the other site 
doesn't. So Lynx gets no UTF-8 declaration from columbia.com. Perhaps 
that's the reason for the difference. (Browsers don't need to support a 
charset declaration via <meta>-tag.) Try

lynx -dump -head http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html

and

lynx -dump -head http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://validator.w3.org/

from the command line and have a look at the output.
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Received on Friday, 18 January 2002 11:39:34 UTC