I'm running the w3.org HTML Validator tool on my site, which is a Zen Cart 1.3.8 site. It immediately states:
No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
None of the standards sources gave any information on the character encoding labeling for this document. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. As a fallback solution, the "UTF-8" encoding was used to read the content and attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.
Does anyone know the best way to fix this?
Thanks,
TJ
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10 Jan 2009, 04:55 AM #1
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w3.org html validator error - no character encoding found
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10 Jan 2009, 05:00 AM #2
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Re: w3.org html validator error - no character encoding found
Along the same lines, I get this error as well:
Unable to Determine Parse Mode!
The validator can process documents either as XML (for document types such as XHTML, SVG, etc.) or SGML (for HTML 4.01 and prior versions). For this document, the information available was not sufficient to determine the parsing mode unambiguously, because:
the MIME Media Type (text/html) can be used for XML or SGML document types
No known Document Type could be detected
No XML declaration (e.g <?xml version="1.0"?>) could be found at the beginning of the document.
No XML namespace (e.g <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">) could be found at the root of the document.
As a default, the validator is falling back to SGML mode.
If you can't tell, I'm not an HTML expert...
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10 Jan 2009, 06:05 AM #3
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Re: w3.org html validator error - no character encoding found
The URL and the template you are using?
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