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" <texin@progress.com>
To: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>; "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>; "Otto Stolz" <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
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.
>
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