- From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:14:14 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
[Bjoern Hoehrmann]: > > * Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > the default charset for text/* is "ISO-8859-1", but the > > validator treats it as unknown. > > > > see 3.4.1 and 3.7.1 in RFC 2616. > > What about section 5.2.2 of HTML 4.01? you have to keep the layers separate here. the HTTP transport delivers a Content-Type header to HTML, this has charset "ISO-8859-1" set implicitly. HTML can NOT distinguish between the charset being explicit in HTTP or not, that behaviour is specified in the HTTP standard. -- Kjetil T. | read and make up your own mind | http://www.cactus48.com/truth.html
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