- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:18:56 +0200 (EET)
- To: William Breuer <w.breuer@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, William Breuer wrote: > I've got the same error on my pages... Same as what? Please quote or paraphrase what you are commenting on. > Example url: http://www.woordenboekjes.nl/winkel/titel/Bulgaars You get "non SGML character number 128". What is your problem with that, after reading the explanation after it? (The explanation is somewhat confused, as almost anything written about character codes, but it's still reasonably understandable and correct.) > The only symbol where the validator says there is a error is on the euro > sign. No, it reports the octet 128 (decimal) as error. In the encoding that your server declares in HTTP headers, iso-8859-1, it means nothing - it is in the area reserved for control characters. Most browsers assume that the declaration of iso-8859-1 was incorrect and apply windows-1252 instead, but it's unwise to rely on such behavior. > I know it's possible to replace it by €, but I guess if people use > machines that don't support the direct character request, the € won't > help also. Browsers that don't recognize € are rare these days (you would have to go down to something like Netscape 4). Besides, seeing € displayed literally isn't that bad - it's not optimal browsing experience but it gives the idea of what is meant, and nobody expects optimal browsing experience when using Netscape 4 these days. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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