The encoding is being declared in the http Content-Type header properly and corrsepond to the encoding actually used AND the one declared in the html. If I choose "detect automatically" as both the character encoding and the doctype, I get this warning: Using windows instead of the declared encoding iso First of all it is unclear: Is it telling me that the page is encoded with a different encoding than the one declared, or is it telling me that the validator is using a different encoding to decode it?
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Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 36k times. BenMorel Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Joel goes on saying: In fact as soon as people started buying PCs outside of America all kinds of different OEM character sets were dreamed up, which all used the top characters for their own purposes. On "the ANSI conspiracy", Microsoft actually admits the miss-labeling of Windows in a glossary of terms : The so-called Windows character set WinLatin1, or Windows code page , to be exact uses some of those positions for printable characters.
Mark Amery k 67 67 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Borislav Sabev Borislav Sabev 4, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Thanks for such a great answer. Using your links I've created this array of all possible encoding strings, not sure if useful but sharing the link for all random googlers like myself: gist. LukasLiesis nice to know it helped — Borislav Sabev.
Jukka K. Korpela Jukka K. Korpela k 34 34 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Wernfried Domscheit Wernfried Domscheit Thanks, that was really what I wanted to know. Now I can say that the only significative difference is the Euro symbol :- — neves. Well, the Baltic people certainly will have a different opinion :- — Wernfried Domscheit. They only differ in 32 characters. These 2 links list them both.
WernfriedDomscheit hmm.. I'll look into the idea that there are different character sets referred to as ANSI. A common result was that all the quotes and apostrophes produced by "smart quotes" in word-processing software were replaced with question marks or boxes on non-Windows operating systems, making text difficult to read" — barlop.
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