Posted by David Dorward on 05/04/06 10:24

ironcorona wrote:

> So THAT'S what that's about. I've just noticed recently that the W3
> validator is insisting on a character encoding declaration. Something
> like: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=ISO-8859-1" /> in order for it to be strict XHTML.

That is very much a poor mans solution, and prevents you serving the
document as application/xhtml+xml - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_9 - a
real HTTP header is the better way.

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