- From: Sascha Claus <SC_LE@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:38:54 +0100
- To: Michael Jackson <michael.jackson@bcs.org.uk>
- CC: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, www-validator@w3.org
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. -- Sascha »SCommmodore« Claus mailto:SC_LE@gmx.de PGP-key:0x9E095CA2 The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer "Winnie" Churchill)
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