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"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to validate the document. The sources I tried are:
The HTTP Content-Type field.
The XML Declaration.
The HTML "META" element.
And I even tried to autodetect it using the algorithm defined in Appendix F of the XML 1.0 Recommendation.
Since none of these sources yielded any usable information, I will not be able to validate this document. Sorry. Please make sure you specify the character encoding in use."
I am using Dreamweaver to create the page and I have no idea what I need to include to make this work. Can someone provide an example of the code cahnge I need to make?
Much thanks-
Put this line in the head-section of your page:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">Pick the charset you need. iso-8859-1 is standard western, iso-8859-15 more or less the same but with better support for the euro sign. These are just two charsets, there are many more out there.
Also, AFAIK you may need to put a / at the end of the meta decleration (not 100% sure):
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
I would assume that this means the pages are written in HTML version 4.01 - am I correct in this assumption?
I thought that I heard that DreamweaverMX was XHTML compliant but I am not 100% sure on that.
To have it rendered in standards mode, specify the full doctype which is..
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
All on one line, at the very top of the document, above <html>.
See [alistapart.com...]
Note: thats not what is causing your content-type problem, but its an important point. ;)
More useful suggestion: try setting the character set manually on the validator for now, and see if it flags up any other problems with the html.
