- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:21:57 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>, Einar Westermann <einar.westermann@online.no>
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Terje Bless wrote: > Einar Westermann <einar.westermann@online.no> wrote: > > >I see. So the validator in fact evaluates my user agent's capabilities > >as well, while offering file validation. [...] Or is this charset > >attribute or parameter something the validator needs but may not get > >when I upload? > > That's exactly it. Without information about the character encoding it's > impossible to validate the file. Stupid question: Would it be possible to standardise a Content-Type: text/whatever-it-says-dude where the server explicitly hands over encoding assignation to the document and its meta tags? Such a Content-Type: would work well if used for browser uploads. L. <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
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