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?
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Richard Grevers