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Posted by Andy Dingley on 03/15/07 17:59
On 15 Mar, 17:37, grou...@reenie.org wrote:
> I'll rephrase that. Why is Tidy giving me a document that does not
> validate ?
I don't think Tidy fixes errors that are caused by impossible
characters, arising from embedding uninterpretable byte sequences in
documents that conflict with the assumed encoding for that file. If
they're broken, I think they just stay broken.
> It is because the server is somehow serving the file wrong ?
I think your server is trying to serve these documents correctly, but
you still haven't shown us the original. Once an encoding error creeps
in it's sometimes impossible to reverse it without knowing what it was
originally supposed to be, and this is beyond an automatic tool that
tries to work from the document alone.
What's the _original_ document that you're asking Tidy to work on?
Tidy can certainly take a docuemnt containing correctly encoded non-
ASCII characters, then process it by "Clean up" to produce a well-
formed, valid and correctly encoded UTF-8 document. If you then serve
this as UTF-8, all remains well.
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