[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia page encoding

[Richard Grevers]

Hi again,

I attempted to submit a sample Wkipedia page to the W3C validator and was 
amzaed to see that carried no character encoding whatsoever. Here is the 
full report from the validator -

I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the 
valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is 
impossible to validate the document. The sources I tried are: The HTTP 
Content-Type field.
The XML Declaration.
The HTML "META" element.

And I even tried to autodetect it using the algorithm defined in Appendix F 
of the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Since none of these sources yielded any 
usable information, I will not be able to validate this document. Sorry. 
Please make sure you specify the character encoding in use. IANA maintains 
the list of official names for character sets. ----
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Surely Wikipedia ought to use an encoding such as UTF-8?
-- 
Richard Grevers