Re: Encoding and validation

Stanimir Stamenkov <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:55:59 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.amaya.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:25 -0500, /Bill Braun/:

> When I run it through the w3 validator it passes, but serves up a warning:
> 
> Character Encoding mismatch!

How do you serve the document to the validator - using file upload
or by providing an URL?

> The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is
> different from the value in the XML declaration (iso-8859-1). I will
> use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8).
> 
> What explains this, and how can the warning be cleared?

I guess you're providing an URL to your document where the server is
sending a 'Content-Type' header including 'charset=utf-8' parameter.
 You should know the encoding specified in the HTTP communication
takes precedence over anything else.

-- 
Stanimir