Instead of: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8;"/>
Try: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> This will match what your web server is sending, otherwise change your web server config if you can :-) Lloyd On 11/10/05, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am getting the following warning when I validate my pages: > > -------------- > Character Encoding mismatch! > > The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is > different from the value in the <meta> element (utf-8). I will use the value > from the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) for this validation. > > ------------------ > > My header code looks like this, which should validate fine: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > <head> > <title>title</title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8;"/> > > I have just started reading more about character encoding and special > characters, is my problem that I have used decimal character refereces? For > example > > - as - > > ' as ' > > and so on. I thought this was the correct way to add special characters for > XHTML, but what I am reading now seems to contradict this. This is the part > of standards where I get a bit confused. Does anyone have any advice or know > of some good articles where they explain this in simple terms?? > > Cheers ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
