Martin Duerst wrote, > > > > I don't understand why this page uses x-user-defined as a charset. > > Labeling it as US-ASCII would be perfectly correct. > > The 'charset' only applies to the binary encoded characters, not > > to NCRs. > > > (I wrote,) > It would be perfectly correct and might even allow the page to > sport one of those "valid-HTML" gifs from W3.
But it doesn't. Just tried changing the charset on an NCR Deseret test page from UTF-8 to US-ASCII. Both charsets fail on the W3 validator because the NCRs are out of any recognized range. I'd thought that it should pass validation earlier as UTF-8, since it *is* both ASCII and UTF-8. So, no valid-HTML gif for this page yet: http://home.att.net/~jameskass/deserettest.htm It has the charset set to UTF-8 now. Best regards, James Kass.
