XHTML Validation Problems

What happens if you remove ALL the webrings codes? Seemingly they have a lot of non-utf-8 characters in those, and the validator doesn’t even want to “look” at your site…

Funny you should mention that Moshu, it was only after placing those codes, that the problem first occurred.

Having said that, those webring codes have since been cleaned up to be XHTML compatible. If they are still not, perhaps you could suggest what needs to be done to them?

Thanks,

MC

Maybe you are saving them in a text editor that doesn’t have utf-8 support. Or the files, I don’t know.
For sure, this kind of message on THE validator appears when files or code portions were added by using a text editor that doesn’t have utf-8 support.

Even in a simple thing like Notepad you can select (when saving) the proper encoding.

Totally off-topic and rude of me, no doubt, but I hope you’ll forgive me for pointing out that it’s a fine-tooth(ed) comb, not fine toothcomb. Me, I’m holding out for the invention of the electric toothcomb. ??

Those weird links are not UTF-8 compatible because of the strange characters in them. Every link is surrounded by these weird garbage characters. On my screen they show up as weird question marks inside black diamonds.

Remove those odd characters around each of the links.

Moshu – Thanks, it appears that I may have been saving things as ANSI instead of UTF-8. If I open the relevant files and re-save them as UTF-8, is that likely to solve the problem, or do I actually need to remove/alter specific characters?

Otto – To which characters are you refering?

Haecceity – According to my edition of The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, “Although toothcomb and fine toothcomb arose from a misunderstanding of fine-tooth comb, they are now accepted as established expressions.”

MC

Umm.. The weird characters on your webpage. They’re invalid UTF-8, which is why you cannot validate.

Look: https://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6687/charsst5.png

Those weird characters around your links.

Thanks Otto. I’ve never seen those weird characters before, as they don’t show up in any of the 4 browsers the site has been tested with. But I take your point.

BTW, which browser/version/platform are you using?

Thanks,

MC

I don’t know what Otto is using… On WinXP IE6 and FF 1.5.0.7 and Opera 9.02 all show weird characters in the same place as it is seen on the screenshot!

McRebbe,

This will probably not help you in regards to validation, but you should consider upgrading your WordPress to the current 2.05 for security reasons. Just thought I would mention that since you indicated you are running 2.02

That’s weird. IE6 on Win XP is one of the setups I’m testing on and I’m not seeing any probs?

So the question is if I open the relevant files and re-save them as UTF-8, is that likely to solve the problem, or do I actually need to remove/alter specific characters?

Thanks,

MC

That might help – although it will also depend on what kind of code snippets are you using for those lists.

Yup, it worked perfectly. The site now validates. Thanks.

If anyone else wants double check in their browsers, that would be cool, otherwise this is closed.

MC