not2easy - 7:11 pm on Sep 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

No, you don't need to eliminate the id's, I think lucy24 was referring to eliminating any reference to charset in the actual .css file, that file should not contain any kind of headers or meta data. There may be issues with the .css file, if it has a charset or if it contains those | pipe characters you showed in the OP.