- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:22:16 +0100 (BST)
- To: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- cc: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, Vojtech Rynda <voitech@seznam.cz>, <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Olivier Thereaux wrote: > 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 Thanks. I can't decide if that's a very subtle way to get Content-Type used properly, or just very very broken. L. > > [[ > 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 > > <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
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