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Re: Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator/OneLast Comment

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From: Robert Yonaitis
Date: Jan 24, 2007 3:40PM

Jon:

Might help the users and the people on the list.

It would seem the method you are requiring is NOT the primary method
mentioned by the validator


Help for The W3C Markup Validation Service. Retrieved January
24, 2007, from W3C Web site: http://validator.w3.org/
docs/help.html#faq-charset


An HTML document should be served along with its character encoding.

Specifying a character encoding is "typically done by the web server
configuration," by the scripts that put together pages, and inside the
document itself. IANA maintains the list of official names for character
encodings (called charsets in this context). You can choose from a
number of encodings, though we recommend UTF-8 as particularly useful.


Cheers,
rob