Re: Document without charset

• From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
• Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:54:01 +0100
• To: www-validator@w3.org
• Message-ID: <A02020009-1043-F049CF104A1143ED93EE5DD3E537D7D3@pounder.tj.unn.no>

Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

>Thus, if you submit an XML document to a validator without 'charset',
>then the validator is formally required to treat it as US-ASCII. (I hope
>the validator doesn't actually behave so, or at least issues an adequate
>warning.)

Without checking the code, in this case the validator should fall back to using
the Appendix F algorithm for guessing the encoding (right or wrong; that's how I
recall it to behave).

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