Re: possible bug in the validator?

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> > Your server is sending the header
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
> > which overrides the charset specified within the HTML document.
> 
> Surely the charset in the document should take precedence?

No, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2

[[
Conforming user agents must observe the following priorities when
determining a document's character encoding (from highest priority to
lowest):

   1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field.
   2. A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a
value set for "charset".
   3. The charset attribute set on an element that designates an
external resource.
]]

The validator is behaving according to the specification.
 
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