- From: Ron Bich - ronaldjbich <ronaldjbich@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:30:17 -0700
- To: "Ron Bich - ronaldjbich" <ronaldjbich@comcast.net>, "Marc Philipp" <marc.philipp@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>, <www-validator@w3.org>
Marc, I saved your html to a file and ran the validation service on that file using, http://validator.w3.org/, and this file validates as XHTML 1.0. You may want to look at your Perl code, if the html validates then my next guess is that the problem is in that part of you page. Ron -----Original Message----- From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Ron Bich - ronaldjbich Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:19 AM To: Marc Philipp; www-validator@w3.org Subject: RE: Strange Problem 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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