- From: Rick Bogart <rick@sun.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:48:05 -0700
- To: www-validator@w3.org
The validator has evidently become case-sensitive to the parameter tag "CHARSET" in the <META> content label sometime in the last few months. Pages with tags like the following: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=iso-8859-1"> that formerly validated with automatic detection of encoding now fail. The only way to get them to validate (other than provisionally with a set encoding) is to change the above to: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> I have seen several messages go through on this topic, and it appears that the "CHARSET=" tag is not supposed to be case-sensitive. It is particularly odd because I can change the case of the other tag values and everything is fine: <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="TEXT/HTML charset=ISO-8859-1"> validates with no problem; only the term "charset" is case-sensitive! Is this going to be fixed, or do I have to change all my META tags to get their pages to validate? Thanks, -rick bogart
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