HTML5 character encoding problem 1

PeDa · Nov 2, 2014

I am trying (really only as an intelectual exercise) to convert my website (pdavis.nl) from HTML4 to HTML5. Although I include <!DOCTYPE html> and <meta charset=UTF-8> tags, the W3C Markup Validation Service detects the following errors:

Code:

Character Encoding mismatch!
The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the <meta> element (utf-8). I will use the value from the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) for this validation.
Warning Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding iso-8859-1.
Warning Legacy encoding windows-1252 used. Documents should use UTF-8.
Error Line 4, Column 20: Internal encoding declaration utf-8 disagrees with the actual encoding of the document (windows-1252).

I don't understand where the iso-8859-1 and windows-1252 references come from. Any suggestions welcome.

Peter D

Olaf Doschke · Nov 2, 2014

HTTP Headers are not inside the HTML file, but headers of the HTTP protocol. You would need to look into the web server.
If you use PHP, send a http header with header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8');

More tips, see

http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html

Bye, Olaf.

PeDa · Nov 2, 2014

Hello Olaf,

Thank you; fixed this by 'AddDefaultCharset utf-8' in my .htaccess

Peter D.

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HTML5 character encoding problem 1

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