- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:18:35 +0900
- To: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Cc: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, Vojtech Rynda <voitech@seznam.cz>, www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002, Lloyd Wood wrote: > > Your server is sending the header > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > > which overrides the charset specified within the HTML document. > > Surely the charset in the document should take precedence? No, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2 [[ Conforming user agents must observe the following priorities when determining a document's character encoding (from highest priority to lowest): 1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field. 2. A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a value set for "charset". 3. The charset attribute set on an element that designates an external resource. ]] The validator is behaving according to the specification. -- Olivier Thereaux - W3C http://www.w3.org/People/olivier | http://yoda.zoy.org
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