validator.w3.org
James, you are right, I just ran it and it says it doesn't recognize the
encoding.
tex
James Kass wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Tex Texin Director, International Business
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> > -------------------------------------------------------------
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> > http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
> >
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