Re: utf-8 validation help

Hi Jukka, all.

On Aug 31, 2006, at 01:32 , Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> There's a problem with the validator, really. It gets a document  
> without a charset parameter in a Content-Type header and without a  
> <meta> Ersatz for that. It then interprets, with no explicit note  
> about having done that, the document as being UTF-8 encoded, then  
> issues error messages based on this (mis)interpretation. The  
> validator can _know_, and actually knows, that the encoding cannot  
> be UTF-8, since the data is malformed if interpreted that way. So  
> why does it issue detailed complaints?

I agree, just entered a bug to track and fix this:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3642

-- 
olivier

Received on Thursday, 31 August 2006 01:49:57 UTC