Re: [PLUG] UTF-8 question

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 17 Jun, 2004, at 10:03, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> I tried to view this web page and found it to look like garbage to me:
>
>     http://phi.sinica.edu.tw/aspac/reports/94/94002/plot-2.html
>
> The page appears to be UTF-8 encoded.
>
> So I'm curious if this garbage display means that I have configured my
> machine badly for UTF-8 or if the UTF-8 in question is specifying a
> script system (glyph set?) that I do not have installed.
>
> I try to install as many fonts as I can to avoid such things.  If
> something shows up in Cyrillic, I still can't read it, but at least I
> know why.  The above is a bit frustrating because I don't know why.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

I believe the page is simply garbage(d) ...

If you look at the html source, no encoding scheme is specified.

They have simply embeded non-ASCII characters in with ASCII 
characters... either intentionally or inadvertently.

The W3 validator says:

"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 reliably validate the document. I'm falling back  to 
the "UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation,  but 
this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents."

and

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on lines  15-16, 
54-55, 63, 69-70, 91-92, 103-104, 108-109, 111, 114, 116-117, 119, 121, 
123-128, 131, 133-135, 137, 142-143, 146, 149-150, 152-156, 172-174, 
176-177, 180-181, 183-185, 190-191, 193-203, 209, 212, 215-221, 224  it 
contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as  utf-8  (in 
other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified 
Character Encoding).  Please check both the content of the file and the 
character encoding indication."

(PS, it also does not display correctly in either Safari or OmniWeb 
(both of which use OS X decoding Framework) or in IE 5.2 )

You could write to the page author/Webmaster and point out the W3 
Validator (www.w3.org - select html validator) to them and suggest they 
fix the HTML.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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