- From: Newton, Philip <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:31:05 -0500 (EST)
- To: "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
[Note: I am not subscribed to the list; email copies are appreciated.] Hi, I have a page which is encoded in UTF-16 (specifically, UTF-16BE, though it starts with a BOM). When I tried to validate it at http://validator.w3.org/ , I was told that the encoding was not recognised and to submit the encoding if I thought that was appropriate. Well, since that page uses the "private use area" with characters in the U+Exxx range, I picked UTF-16 since that uses two bytes per character as opposed to three bytes per character for UTF-8 in that range. Similar considerations might apply for CJK text which would be larger in UTF-8 than in UTF-16. So I'd like to ask for UTF-16 to be supported in the validator. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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