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Re: utf-8 validation error

From: David Thielen <dave@windward.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:14:12 -0600
Message-ID: <026801c2fd85$4f86d7b0$69f72dc7@BAMBI>
To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>

I'm trying to do char 0x80 for the Wingdings2 font. But I get the same error
when doing Chinese chars using a Chinese font. (And they all display fine in
IE).

thanks - dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: "David Thielen" <dave@windward.net>
Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: utf-8 validation error


> * David Thielen wrote:
> >and it's a legit 2 byte UTF8 sequence. Does the validator not
> >support UTF8? (I would assume it does as it is so common and
> >so I'm figuring I am doing something wrong. An example it is
> >chocking on is 0xC2 0x80.
>
> That's U+0080, this is an unused control character in HTML, I
> guess the Validator complains about an invalid SGML character,
> not an encoding error. Maybe you are trying to use U+20AC, the
> euro currency symbol?
>
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