Tex, What validator are you using?
Couldn't seem to get W3 validator to recognize x-user-defined as a valid character set. Don't know if it's even registered with IANA, but on one of Microsoft's pages it is listed as a Microsoft internal character set (IIRC). Best regards, James Kass. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Martin Duerst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Otto Stolz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:40 PM Subject: Re: New plane 1 page for testing your browsers > James, thanks. That reminded me. I also generally use the validator > before posting a page and also found it failed the validator but worked > under X-User-Defined. That pushed me in that direction. > > tex > > James Kass wrote: > > > > 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. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Tex Texin Director, International Business > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1-781-280-4271 > the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > For a compelling demonstration for Unicode: > http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html >
