- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:49:44 +0200
- To: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- Cc: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, Christopher Head <chead@chead.ca>, www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote: > Actually, it's not. It's the result of an intentional update I pushed to > the W3C validator a couple of days ago in order to bring it in line with > the current HTML spec, which no longer references the IANA charset registry > but instead now normatively references the Encoding standard: > > http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/ The W3C copy of the validator needs to have its cache of http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MicrosyntaxDescriptions refreshed. > In that spec, the proper (preferred) name of the encoding is > "windows-1252", and "iso-8859-1" is a (non-preferred) label for that. And, of course, if this annoys people, the best way not to be annoyed is to migrate to UTF-8, which is what authors SHOULD do. :-) Validator whines about legacy encodings coming up later. >> It does not exist at http://validator.nu on which the W3C Validator is >> based. So this will probably be fixed in a few weeks or years. > > It does not exist in http://validator.nu yet but it will as soon as Henri > pushes the change to it. It's already changed in the validator sources. Deployed now. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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