Re: Web pages & Jp. text -THANKS ALL

[Michael Schubart <michael@example.com>]

Am Sun, 27 Aug 2000 schrieb Jonathan Q:
> Stephen Lee (sl@example.com) wrote:
>
> Stephen> You should put in the metatag anyway.  People like me switch
> between
>
> Yes, you certainly should.  Charset information is not some optional
> nicety, it is *mandatory* in the HTML specification and has been for a very
> long time. It is mandatory for any charset, including iso8959-1.  Despite
[...]

Well, this is funny, then: When I check my page at www.schubart.net
with validator.w3.org, I get 

  Congratulations, this document validates as HTML 4.0 Strict! 

even though there is no char set info in it. Is validator's
output misleading? And I thought I'd done everything right...

Cheers
Michael

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Michael Schubart                             michael@example.com
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