- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:53:27 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Well, the server _should_ send the encoding information For many users of the online validator that won't fly, they have some Web space somewhere, with a http server that won't let them create dot-files (or ignores them, same effect). > at least the page should have a <meta> tag with such info. Yes, for HTML and some cases of XHTML 1.0. The OP now picked <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>, for popular browsers that should work (and it certainly works for the validator). > The validator can _know_, and actually knows, that the > encoding cannot be UTF-8, since the data is malformed if > interpreted that way. What should it do, try Latin-1 if UTF-8 fails, windows-1252 if it still doesn't work ? Or just ignore the spurious octets reporting a summary "missing charset declaration, certainly no UTF-8" ? Frank
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