- From: Ron Bich - ronaldjbich <ronaldjbich@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:18:33 -0700
- To: "Marc Philipp" <marc.philipp@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>, <www-validator@w3.org>
David's suggestion to examine all the data sent to the validator would be my next suggestion. Ron -----Original Message----- From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Marc Philipp Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:09 AM To: www-validator@w3.org Subject: Re: Strange Problem Hmm, same error message. Not what i expected but still not good! Any other suggestions? Marc Ron Bich - ronaldjbich schrieb: > Try taking the -1 off of the end of our 8860 and see what happens. > > Ron > > -----Original Message----- > From: www-validator-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Marc Philipp > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:09 AM > To: www-validator@w3.org > Subject: Strange Problem > > > > I have a problem using http://validator.w3.org/check/referer with a > xhtml document generated by a perl script. > > I moved to a new server recently. Since then the following message > appears when i try validating the site: > > " Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the > character encoding of the document. Either we do not support this > character encoding yet, or you have specified a non-existent character > encoding (often a misspelling). > > The detected character encoding was "-8860". " > > However, my header looks like this: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de"> > <head> > <title>mp. - News</title> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> > ... > > It looks like the -8859 is subtracted by 1 with the result of -8860 > which of course is no valid character encoding. Looking at the source of > the referring site on the other hand shows the correct value. > > Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before? > > Sincerely, > > Marc Philipp > >
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