[issue5698] pydoc -w doesn't produce proper HTML

Georg Brandl added the comment: I fixed the DOCTYPE in trunk/3k r71443/71444, and the encoding issue in 3k only, because there the encoding is well-defined, in r71445. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5698] pydoc -w doesn't produce proper HTML

Georg Brandl added the comment: The DOCTYPE fix is fine. However, I'm not sure about the charset -- why should it be UTF-8? Pydoc will output anything in docstrings, which can be in any encoding. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5698] pydoc -w doesn't produce proper HTML

New submission from Matthias Klose : [forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/411524] """ If you feed the output of pydoc -w [some module] to the w3 validator, it complains about two issues: firstly, the doctype is wrong. It should be: not in the head would probably do. """ -- assignee