- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 22:38:34 +0200
- To: Thorsten Glaser <tygs@netcologne.de>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* Thorsten Glaser wrote: >the validator.w3.org service should grok the charset > iso_646.irv:1991 >as a valid alias for US-ASCII. Agreed. I18N::Charset will help. >I use this charset as I am not US-based, US-ASCII is the preferred MIME name, you should use it, no matter whether you like the "us" in the identifier or not. >Of course, this is a valid subset of iso-8859-1, utf-8 and more, >but I want to have a 7-bit XHTML file only. You can keep your XHTML documents "7-bit" only, but you should declare UTF-8 anyway. XML processors are not required to support US-ASCII and in fact a lot of processors do not support it.
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