- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 22:41:32 +0200
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
* Terje Bless wrote: >>The MarkUp Validator gives no errors / warnings / whatever, it just >>tells the document is valid. The CSS Validator will treat the document >>as UTF-8 encoded XML document and throw an error for the bad UTF-8 >>sequence. At least one of the validators should be changed to get >>consistent results. Which and how? > >Given the Content-Type of text/html, I would say the CSS Validator is in error >here and should be amended to either pay attention to the <meta> value or use >the HTTP defaulting rules (depending on what your position on the HTTP vs. >HTML vs. MIME defaulting rules is). > >Granted XML rules suggest UTF-8 or -16 for this case, but as it's served as >text/html -- e.g. Appendix C rules -- these do not, IMO, apply. But the MarkUp Validator honors the XML declaration in such documents...
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