Re[2]: possible bug in the validator?

Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 5:27:31 PM:

TK> scripsit Lloyd Wood:
>> 
>> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Olivier Thereaux wrote:
>> 
>> > 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
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> I can't decide if that's a very subtle way to get Content-Type used
>> properly, or just very very broken.

TK> IMHO it's broken simply because a huge amount of Web content is deployed
TK> by developers/designers who have no control over their servers.  I may
TK> develop a Japanese-language Web site hosted in the U.S., where the Web
TK> server wants to call everything Latin-1 -- so I would use a <meta> to
TK> tell clients I'm using UTF-8.  Unless I have the financial resources to
TK> set up a colo which is mine to play with, I have to live with imperfect
TK> server configuration.  It's a fact of life for most private-citizen
TK> sites.

So if I get it well, there's nothing I can do about it, because the charset
specification is altered by the server anyway?

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Vojtech Rynda