[html5] Validator is incorrectly detecting that the page encoding is utf-8 when it is actually iso-8859-1

Brett Ryan brett.ryan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 17:19:21 PDT 2013


> Both the current W3C service and validator.nu seem to correctly recognize
> that as being served as windows-1252, not iso-8859-1. They both generate
> the same warning message as expected: "Warning: Legacy encoding
> windows-1252 used. Documents should use UTF-8."

Yeah, I changed the encoding to windows-1252 by recommendation of not to use iso-8859-1, I'm still looking into this.

I'm using the Firefox plugin (https://github.com/rogerjohansson/html5validator.git) with the local validator server (https://bitbucket.org/validator/validator/).

-Brett


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