Hi Sage, > When I validate my page, I get the following message > The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is > different from the value in the <meta> element (iso-8859-1). > I'd like to keep the iso-8859-1 value, just because it seems to work
Your web server (eg Apache) sends the character encoding HTTP header. In order to match up your HTTP header to your meta-equiv you would need to make the change server-side, something you might not have access to do. This simplest way to match them would be changing your meta tags. Implications? Check Anne van Kesteren's (of 10 Questions fame: http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/anne-van-kesteren.cfm ) "Quick Guide to UTF-8" http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/06/utf-8 If you're really keen, you can find out more about specifying the character encoding at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2 - ben ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
