- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:35:48 +0200
- To: "Jean CHEVALLIER" <jeanchevallier@orange.fr>, <www-validator@w3.org>
Jean CHEVALLIER wrote: > I think this line is correct : > <meta charset="ISO-8859-1" /> It is correct according to current HTML5 drafts. > (I look at W3 school..) Don't. It's unreliable and surely non-authoritative. > Why did I get this message : > Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding iso-8859-1. It's an informative message. When a document declared as iso-8859-1 contains octets (bytes) in the range 80..1F, browsers won't reject the document or ignore the octets but generally interpret them according to an encoding where the octets, or at least some of them, represent graphic characters. This is normally windows-1252 in the Western world, but it might be something else somewhere else. So explicitly declaring the encoding as windows-1252 ensures consistent processing (in case the document contains those octets, and documents often contain them even if they are believed to be iso-8859-1). -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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