validator.w3.org James, you are right, I just ran it and it says it doesn't recognize the encoding. tex
James Kass wrote: > > 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 > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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
