Bug 929 – character encoding declaration is now required

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Bug 929 - character encoding declaration is now required


Summary:	character encoding declaration is now required

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML parser
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Henri Sivonen

URL:	http://html5.org/r/7160

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Reported:	2012-06-30 10:36 CEST by Michael[tm] Smith
Modified:	2013-03-26 15:16 CET (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michael[tm] Smith 2012-06-30 10:36:48 CEST

http://html5.org/r/7160

+  <p class="note">A character encoding declaration is required (either
+  in the <span title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</span> or
+  explicitly in the file) even if the encoding is US-ASCII, because an
+  encoding is needed to process non-ASCII characters entered by the
+  user in forms, in URLs generated by scripts, and so forth.</p>

So I think the warning-level message that the parser code currently emits needs to be an error-level message instead.

Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2013-03-26 15:16:52 CET

https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/htmlparser/rev/4e1877dd8a41