- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:01:07 +0300 (EEST)
- To: "www-validator@w3.org Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, olivier Thereaux wrote: > It is with great pleasure and excitement that we am starting a Beta Test > period for the W3C Markup Validator: > > http://validator-test.w3.org/ I haven't found many differences yet (it's faster, but probably just because of smaller load), but this one is rather serious: When testing a page in ISO-8859-1 encoding, the echo of a source line in an error message has the non-ASCII characters replaced by malformed data, displayed by IE 7 as small rectangles, by Firefox 2 as U+FFFD (a white question mark in a black lozenge) Test page: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/val.html The reason is apparently that the beta version echoes the source line "as is", even though the source is ISO-8859-1 encoded and the validator's report page is UTF-8 encoded. This doesn't happen in the production version validator.w3.org, which seems to convert the source to UTF-8 before echoing it. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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