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**OZSA** · 04-18-2006, 09:37 PM

Hi all, I just made my site http://www.makefreemoneyathome.info/ and my friend said that I should validate it.. so I went to http://validator.w3.org/ and tried whats happening..it gave me plenty of errors but page by page I corrected them. When I finished all my site, I checked again and it said like this : A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character encoding ("iso8859-2") yet, or you have specified a non-existent character encoding (often a misspelling). My site is not iso8859-2, please check the source code of my page to see why isn't this going well.

If you check my webpage with Validate by Direct Input (thats the 3rd option on w3 site) then it said it's a valid HTML 4.0. I don't understand what is it now. Help me somehow please Thanks The-Ape and everybody who helped me about 3-4weeks.

Respect!
Bye

Check my first website

http://www.makefreemoneyathome.info

**blue-dreamer** · 04-18-2006, 10:54 PM

Then you need to define a character set tag in yout <head></head> , something like this
...

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

**OZSA** · 04-19-2006, 01:17 AM

Absolutely no change.. I changed the charset but nothing, the same words from the validator.. could somebody say why isn't this going? Please check the sourcecode a bit more precisly and say what's the problem.. I repeat, when I copy-paste the sourcode of my page, it says Valid HTML 4.0 .... I just don't get the point why the main URL is bad and the sourcecode is good..

Please Help..
Bye

**Talk2Me2** · 04-19-2006, 01:38 AM

There is antohter way to check to make sure your sites work...try and ping your site.

**dk01** · 04-19-2006, 01:46 AM

Please refer to this link:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...line&verbose=1

You will see that when you override the validator content-type finding it throws the following error:

Quote:

The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso8859-2) is different from the value in the <meta> element (iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) for this validation.

This means that your webserver is serving the page incorrectly (as ISO8859-2, instead of ISO-8859-2). If you have php you can do this at the beginning of every page to correct it or talk to your web host to try and get them to fix the problem on their end:

PHP Code:


			
<?php header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1'); ?>

That should fix the problem temporarily, but again you need to tell your host they are serving pages in the wrong character encoding.

**OZSA** · 04-19-2006, 09:25 AM

still no difference man... the problem is with the webhoster ? if yes.....

...
because all pages all html 4.0 valid pages when u insert the code into the validator..
anyway 10x

**dk01** · 04-19-2006, 11:11 AM

Yes, your code is just fine. The problem is that your server is incorrectly sending the page with the wrong character type in the HTTP header.

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