On 24 Apr 2008, at 21:04, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> Considering the real Web content, it is better to pick Windows-1252 >> than a hypothetical generic encoding. > > No, it's not because _in validation_ you don't need to make any > guess on > the meanings of octets > 127 decimal. You're not supposed to render > them > (apart from echoing them along with error messages, but they're not > markup-significant) or to process them in any way but treating them as > data characters. The validator outputs both parts of the original source and it's own error messages. So whatever it outputs, it has to do so in a fashion compatible with the original document. Would outputting entities for its own messages would solve that problem? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/Received on Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:15:35 UTC
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