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Re: Failure to validate

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:26:13 +0100
Message-ID: <48F6FAA5.5010507@dorward.me.uk>
To: Peter <peter@ocsg.co.uk>
CC: www-validator@w3.org

Peter wrote:
>
> I have tried to validate my website the Ovarian Cancer Support Group
> at www.ocsg.co.uk but it fails reporting that the word OVARIAN is
> creating "Encoding not supported". Obviously I am concerned about this
> and would welcome your thoughts.
This:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
charset=Ovarian Cancer Support Group"
charset=iso-8859-1" />


... is nonsense. The correct syntax is:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />


Except that since there is no XML prolog on your XML document, it should
be encoded using UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1.

BTW - the attempt to block the context menu with JavaScript is obnoxious
and made it more time consuming for me to identify your problem.

(Please direct responses to the mailing list, not directly to me)

-- 
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk/
Received on Thursday, 16 October 2008 08:27:03 UTC

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