"iso-8859-8-i" is an invalid character set?

For technical support and bug reports for all editions of CSS HTML Validator, including htmlval for Linux and Mac.
Post Reply
PaliGap
Rank 0 - Newcomer
Posts: 3
Joined: Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:32 pm

"iso-8859-8-i" is an invalid character set?

Post by PaliGap »

I have a Hebrew web page with this declaration:

Code: Select all

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-8-i">
CSE Pro 10 reports : "The value for the "content" attribute specifies an unrecognized charset named "iso-8859-8-i"."

It seems to be a recognised encoding at Wikipedia: "Nominally ISO-8859-8 is for “visual order”, and ISO-8859-8-I is for logical order" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-8)

Is this CSE error report correct then? if so what should it be? Just "ISO-8859-8"?

Thanks.
User avatar
Albert Wiersch
Site Admin
Posts: 3783
Joined: Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:23 am
Location: Near Dallas, TX
Contact:

Re: "iso-8859-8-i" is an invalid character set?

Post by Albert Wiersch »

Hello,

I think that "ISO-8859-8" is what is normally used in HTML documents and "ISO-8859-8-I" is unnecessary in HTML type documents (please let me know if I'm wrong), but I will add "ISO-8859-8-I" to the list of recognized charsets in the next update.

Thanks!
Albert Wiersch, CSS HTML Validator Developer • Download CSS HTML Validator FREE Trial
Post Reply