- From: Julien ÉLIE <julien.elie@wanadoo.fr>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:39:13 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Hi, > It is generally best to post the URL of a page; that way others can see > the entire document as well as the HTTP headers, which are relevant > especially when character encoding problems are involved. All right ; I am sorry for the problems I could have brought along. I shall not do it again. > The validator seems to highlight things sometimes wrongly, so that the > error appears to be in a location quite different from the real one. And do you know whether this behaviour is scheduled to be fixed ? Because it should be better if the right character was highlighted, for people not to wonder what is wrong... > In practical terms, ISO-8859-15 is useless on the Web. Most browsers don't > support it, and anything you can do in ISO-8859-15 can be done easily > using ISO-8859-1 and a few character references (and, if desired, the > entity reference €). Yes, you are right. In fact, I use ISO-8859-15 because I am used to it in mails (for French characters). But as you mention it, entities can be used in HTML pages, so it is better for compatibility to use ISO-8859-1. When you say « most browsers », which ones do you speak about ? Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape, which are the most used, support it. Is not it a minority of people (and not browsers) which do not support it ? By the way, if ISO-8859-15 is not supported, do not they switch to ISO-8859-1 ? (which also renders very well the page) Thanks for your help. Julien
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