- From: Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:55:56 +0100 (MET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > [...] > Apparently the validator uses UTF-8 as the implied default. > The choice is impractical My point was not whether it is practical or impractical. My point is: First, the validator *itself* chooses UTF-8. Then the validator declares that UTF-8 is impossible. This is neither logical nor helpful. > to imply windows-1256 (Windows Arabic), because it has all > code positions (00 to FF hex.) assigned, so there will be > no spurious error messages about some "undefined characters". I suggest MacRoman. ;-) > Probably (a) would be better, though the message could be > formulated in a more adequate and balanced way, I took the words from http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/multilingual1.htm
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