- From: Eddy <eddy@chaos.org.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:44:51 +0100
- To: Mark Rogers <mark.rogers@powermapper.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org, Chuck Houpt <chuck@habilis.net>
> The HTTP headers for the page specify ISO-8859-1:
...
> That’s mapped to windows-1252 by the encoding standard
IIUC, what you're saying is that the
1. Warning: Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding
iso-8859-1.
isn't a warning about the web-page (as, to me, it appeared to be) but
about the tool's interpretation of the web-page; it's saying "You said
you were using iso-8859-1, but I'm interpreting that as windows-1252, so
the later complaint about using windows-1252 is really a complaint about
using iso-8859-1 (instead of UTF-8)."
However, as a reader of the checker's output, I read that as warning me
that, although I'd had the server declare iso-8859-1, I was (allegedly)
in fact using windows-1252 (when, in fact, I was not).
So please consider having the warning expressed differently, so that a
user unfamiliar with the tool is less likely to be mislead by its
warning message.
Eddy.
Received on Saturday, 27 July 2024 22:44:56 UTC