Boke, There is no reason at all that the validator would choke on Turkish characters, if the text is properly encoded in utf-8.
I ran a test, and think I know what the problem is. If you run the validator on your current page [1], but tell it that the encoding is utf-8 (which it is not - it's iso-8859-9), you get exactly the same error message. This suggests to me that you didn't actually save your file as UTF-8, you just changed the encoding declaration in the meta tag. You should try saving the file as utf-8 (see how to do this for various editors [2]), and change the encoding declaration. Then it should work. RI [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fira.com.tr%2Fy%2F&charset=utf -8&doctype=Inline&verbose=1 [2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-setting-encoding-in-application s ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boke Yuzgen > Sent: 22 November 2004 21:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please > > Lang attributes: > Fixed. > > UTF-8 instead of ISO: > Here's the validator's message: > "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on > lines 7-9, 11, 79, 84, 86-87, 89-92, 101, 104-107, 114 it > contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 > (in other words, > > the bytes found are not valid values in the specified > Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the > file and the character encoding indication." > > It doesn't like the Turkish characters. I simply won't write > any UTF-8 codes while writing an article to my web site. If > it doesn't validate my web page some day some how because of > Turkish characters, I won't mind if my pages render correct. > If my pages don't render correct with the Turkish characters > in the code, I will use Flash. ;) > > Because English speaking people can simply write for the web > by hitting one character they know. > Why shoulf non-English speaking people like me bother > character entities etc? Also, I know I can use find&replace > on multi files at the same time, but I won't do that. Then I > will have to backup two copies of each page (eg. if I want to > use my text elsewhere, what will I do then? Reconvert to the > original?). > > - Why? > - Because W3C said so. > > Thank you for your comment. > > --- Boke Yuzgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I will fix lang when I go home. I'm at work now. > > I use W3C's validator. I will also post the error it reports when I > > use UTF-8 when I go home. > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > --- Richard Ishida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Interesting. Which validator are you using? > > > > > > By rights, it shouldn't validate as is, since XML requires an XML > > > declaration (ie. <?xml version="1.0" > > > encoding="iso-8859-9"?>) when not using utf-8. > > > > > > Did you note the comment about lang > > attributes? > > > > > > RI > > > > > > > > > ============ > > > Richard Ishida > > > W3C > > > > > > contact info: > > > http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ > > > > > > W3C Internationalization: > > > http://www.w3.org/International/ > > > > > > Publication blog: > > > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf > > > Of Boke Yuzgen > > > > Sent: 22 November 2004 12:49 > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please > > > > > > > > Idid it first, but my pages won't validate > > if > > > I use UTF-8. > > > > > > > > --- Richard Ishida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Please change > > > > > > > > > > <html > > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; > > > > > xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > > > > > > > > > > to > > > > > > > > > > <html > > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; > > > > > xml:lang="tr" lang="tr"> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you considered using UTF-8, rather > > > than > > > > > charset=iso-8859-9 ? > > > > > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > > RI > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============ > > > > > Richard Ishida > > > > > W3C > > > > > > > > > > contact info: > > > > > http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ > > > > > > > > > > W3C Internationalization: > > > > > http://www.w3.org/International/ > > > > > > > > > > Publication blog: > > > > > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf > > > > > Of Boke Yuzgen > > > > > > Sent: 22 November 2004 09:12 > > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Subject: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > Can you please review this site? Site > > > > > language is not English. > > > > > > > > > > > > http://yuzgen.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Boke Yuzgen > > > > > > > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > > The discussion list for > > > http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > > > > > See > > > > > > http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > The discussion list for > > http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > > > See > > > http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > > > ****************************************************** > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
