What charset am I using?

[RamCharger]

Just a few quick comments:
Be careful and look in your httpd.conf at what charset you have it set to. I ran in to a case with my site where I had it set to UTF-8 and it actually had a higher precedence (or at least conflicted) with the iso-8859-1 that I had in my meta tags. The validator picked that up on my site when it was happening.

Also, about iso-8859-1: be careful when you compose pages that you give some thought if you hope to maintain compatibility with it. iso-8859-1 does have some special chars which you might overlook when writing you html with a text editor (I know I have). These chars are: & which needs to be & in your html, ' needs to be " and a few others that you need to be aware of. If you're using php for text output you can use htmlspecialchars (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/functio...ecialchars.php) to take care of the encoding for you.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Simon

Aside from that you just have to accept that you have those pieces of code that don't validate, but you know your page is good code except for those bits.

Yeah, as long as my page shows up properly, if a link list has a recip table that won't validate, the burden is on him/her.

Originally Posted by RamCharger

Be careful and look in your httpd.conf at what charset you have it set to.

Where do I find httpd.conf?

Originally Posted by RamCharger

Also, about iso-8859-1: be careful when you compose pages that you give some thought if you hope to maintain compatibility with it. iso-8859-1 does have some special chars which you might overlook when writing you html with a text editor (I know I have). These chars are: & which needs to be & in your html, ' needs to be " and a few others that you need to be aware of. If you're using php for text output you can use htmlspecialchars (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/functio...ecialchars.php) to take care of the encoding for you.

I always use & and other special characters if I want that character to actually show up on the page so I think I'm OK with that.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Yeah, as long as my page shows up properly, if a link list has a recip table that won't validate, the burden is on him/her.

Sometimes the errors are so bad I'm surprised my browser doesn't blow up!

I'm a straight up text link recip submitter - have been from the start. I highly recommend it.

Probably best to talk to your host about the httpd.conf file. It's one of those Apache configuration files.

[RamCharger]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Where do I find httpd.conf?

You only need to worry about that file if you own the box. If you're using a host then you don't (and won't) have access to it.