23196 2013-09-10 12:33:31 +0000 Content-Type HTTP headers lacks charset information when json format is requested 2013-09-10 23:20:40 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML Checker General unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 tgambet mike+validator mike www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 93199 0 tgambet 2013-09-10 12:33:31 +0000 When requesting a result as json the server does not specify a complete Content-Type header: [ Content-Type: application/json ] Since the content is UTF-8 the header should be: [ Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 ] ---------------- $ lwp-request -e -d "http://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org&out=json" Cache-Control: no-cache Connection: close Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:26:18 GMT Accept-Encoding: gzip Server: Jetty(6.1.26) Content-Type: application/json Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Client-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:26:17 GMT Client-Peer: 128.30.52.91:80 Client-Response-Num: 1 Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked 93221 1 mike 2013-09-10 23:20:40 +0000 Thanks -- fixed in the sources now https://github.com/validator/validator/commit/c2c0526cb02c605f2a543e1078ae334c717d5ea7