Newbie : Charset with W3C HTML validator

12-09-2003

I got this message

Note: The HTTP Content-Type header sent by your web browser (unknown) did not contain a "charset" parameter,
but the Content-Type was one of the XML text/* sub-types (text/xml). The relevant specification (RFC 3023)
specifies a strong default of "us-ascii" for such documents so we will use this value regardless of any encoding you
may have indicated elsewhere. If you would like to use a different encoding, you should arrange to have your
browser send this new encoding information.

What do I need to fix that? I have

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Shift_JIS" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ja"> <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=shift_jis" />

at the start of the page.

(P.S. Yes, I probably do have no idea what I'm doing )

12-09-2003

in post <news:br4bb4$dkv$1$>
Paul Blay said:

> Note: The HTTP Content-Type header sent by your web browser (unknown)
> did not contain a "charset" parameter, What do I need to fix that?

configure your server to send the correct charset

> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML

is there any reason for using XHTML?

please adjust your word wrap to something around 75 characters.

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brucie
09/December/2003 10:46:11 pm kilo

12-09-2003

brucie <> wrote:

>> Note: The HTTP Content-Type header sent by your web browser
>> (unknown) did not contain a "charset" parameter, What do I need to
>> fix that?
>
> configure your server to send the correct charset

Well, the complaint refers to a _browser_, which is somewhat odd, but
maybe the OP used a file submit feature to send a document for
validation. So apparently the only thing, apart from using a browser
that implements file submission better (and somehow manages to send the
Content-Type header needed), is to use the validator's interface for
setting the "charset".

At http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html there's a pulldown menu
labelled "Encoding". And luckily shift_jis (which the OP's document
uses) is listed there as an alternative.

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12-09-2003

"Jukka K. Korpela" wrote ...
> At http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html there's a pulldown menu
> labelled "Encoding". And luckily shift_jis (which the OP's document
> uses) is listed there as an alternative.

So there is.

I hadn't noticed the ' Extended File Upload Interface ' link.

12-09-2003

in post <news:Xns944C9D93C1C2Fjkorpelacstutfi@193.229.0.31 >
Jukka K. Korpela said:

>> configure your server to send the correct charset

> Well, the complaint refers to a _browser_,

oh, i didn't read it that closely.

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brucie
09/December/2003 11:30:19 pm kilo

12-09-2003

"Paul Blay" <> wrote:

> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=shift_jis" />

This is nonsense since it comes too late. If you are using XHTML 1.1,
you need to specify the Content-Type in the HTTP header.

Please restrict your line length to about 70 characters!

12-09-2003

Andreas Prilop wrote:

> This is nonsense since it comes too late. If you are using XHTML 1.1,
> you need to specify the Content-Type in the HTTP header.

Or use one of the character sets that all XML processors are *required* to
understand (utf-8, utf-16 and proper subsets of them, such as us-ascii)
and almost guaranteed to recognise without a declaration of any kind.

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