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When trying to validate a website at the mentioned URL, I get the following message: ----- Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character encoding yet, or you have specified a non-existent character encoding (often a misspelling). The detected character encoding was "latin-1". The error was "". ----- Of course this is a useless error, empty string. It provides no clue whatsoever as to what I'm doing wrong, I believe that "latin-1" is a valid charset (overriding it with its equivalent "iso-8859-1" works just fine).
I have fixed the "" part of the error message in CVS, this will be included in the next release. However, the part of the current validator's error message which you did not quote here contains links to resources that help you to choose a correct character encoding: | If you believe the character encoding to be valid you can submit a request | for that character encoding (see the feedback page for details) and we will | look into supporting it in the future. | | IANA maintains the list of official names for character sets and the WDG has | some information to help you correctly specify the character encoding. http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets "latin-1" is not an official IANA encoding or alias. ("latin1" is a valid alias for "iso-8859-1", but we don't currently support it; that's another issue). To fix the problem with your page, just use the official preferred MIME name "iso-8859-1".