[bwahahax]

I'm too young to pull out all my hair. Could someone please tell me why this site does not validate:

http://www.benlewis.ca

It keeps on telling me that:

"The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (macintosh) is different from the value in the <meta> element (utf-8)."

I never specify the encoding as being "macintosh" in the header. And according to TextEdit and Smultron it is a UTF-8 document and that is the information I display in the meta tag.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can lend their assistance.

[registered_user]

The server itself is sending out an http header that is probably not utf-8. I'm thinking you're serving the page from a home machine, but here are the http headers:

Response Headers - http://www.benlewis.ca/

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:46:40 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/5.0.4
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.4
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=macintosh

200 OK

[bwahahax]

How would I go about changing that information?

[madmacgames]

If the server supports .htaccess modifications, you can add this to a .htaccess file in the site's web root:

Code:
AddCharset UTF-8 .txt .html .htm .php

(adding extensions as needed)

[bwahahax]

Nevermind, I figured it out. The line:

Code:
AddDefaultCharset macintosh

had been part of a config file I had copied off of someone else in order to enable virtual hosting on my machine.

Seems to validate fine now.

Thanks a lot for the detective work registered_user!