Re: Fallback to UTF-8

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Frank Ellermann wrote:

> We are talking about the disastrous
> side effects of RFC 2616 for documents with a "default"
> Latin-1 in a world where in essence nobody uses Latin-1.

No!
There is *no* disastrous side effect with the validator.
The validator reports "non SGML character number ..."
and this is a fine and useful error report.
It even has a longish explanation:
 "You have used an illegal character in your text ..."

But with a default of UTF-8, there is a disastrous effect.
The validator sits there and does nothing:
  "Sorry! This document can not be checked."


/* That should read "cannot". */

Received on Friday, 25 April 2008 16:38:09 UTC