#2 Warning on no-encoding specified and using chars above 127

[Lucas B. Kruijswijk]

Hi All,

I often see sites that have no encoding specified and use non-ASCII characters (characters with ordinal value above 127).

The validator does not give warnings on this situation, while it is very wrong. If you come from another site, the browser might guess the encoding wrongly and strange characters may appear on your site.

This is definitely worth a warning.

encoding can also be passed by HTTP header, makes implementation maybe more difficult.

Lucas