- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:09:27 +1100
- To: melissa polhamus <mpolhamu@yahoo.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
melissa polhamus wrote: > Could you please help me with the problem I am having validating my > website? The site's http is: > http://members.cox.net/polhamus2/index.html > > I get the following error and I do not know how to correct it: > "unable to validate this document because line 47 contained one or > more bytes that cannot be interpreted as utf-8 (bytes found are not > valid values in the specified Character Encoding) . Please contact > me at: mpolhamu@yahoo.com You need to declare the character encoding that you're using. It looks like you're using Windows-1252 and the easiest way to fix it would be to declare this in the HTTP headers or the meta element. The best option, however, would be to use ISO-8859-1 or, even better, UTF-8, but either way you need to declare the encoding properly. (Note that Windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, but it is a proprietary encoding and, as such, it's use is not recommended on the web.) http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset If you fail to specify the encoding properly using the HTTP headers, you may also specify it using the meta element like this (but the HTTP headers are preferred). <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> (remember to substitute ISO-8859-1 with the name of your chosen encoding. This must match the actual encoding of the file.) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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