[Accessibility_sig] question about character set

[Charlene Zvolanek]

In the head of the html document you can include a meta tag to identify the character set. UTF-8 is a unicode (see below for their character model). 
Examples are:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
or

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
The W3C describes the use of character sets at  http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html and character encoding at  http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#encodings
For a description of the variety of character sets you can visit  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding 
There is a unicode character encoding model at  http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr17/
A recent list of character sets is found at  http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets 
hope this helps!
charlene	

-----Original Message-----
From: accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org [mailto:accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org]On Behalf Of william greer
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:43 AM
To: 'Discussion list for web and software accessibility issues'
Subject: [Accessibility_sig] question about character set


When I attempted to validate the home page of the coalition of Texans with Disabilities ( http://www.cotwd.org), I received the following error:
 
No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8. 
 
Where and how do I specify the character encoding? 
 

 
William Greer
Administrative and Technology Assistant
wgreer at cotwd.org
 


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