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
