W3C Internationalization Checker
Is your page world ready?
W3C Internationalization Checker
Is your page world ready?
| Character encoding | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP Content-Type | utf-8 |
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| Byte order mark (BOM) | No | |
| XML declaration | ISO-8859-1 |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> |
| Meta tag | None found | |
| Language | Code | |
| HTML tag | None |
<html> |
| HTTP Content-Language | None found | |
| Text direction | Code | |
| Default direction | LTR (by default) | |
| Class & id names | Code | |
| Non-ascii class or id names | None | |
| Non-NFC class or id names | None | |
| Request headers | Code | |
| Accept-Language | en-US en |
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 |
| Accept-Charset | None found |
XML declaration used This page currently uses the following XML declaration:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>HTML5 only allows comments before the Doctype, so this prevents the use of the XML declaration.
Remove the XML declaration from your page. Use a meta element instead to declare the character encoding of the page.
Conflicting character encoding declarations The following character encoding declarations are inconsistent:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>Browsers will apply precedence rules to determine the character encoding to use for the page, but this may not be the encoding you intended.
Change the character encoding declarations so that they match. Ensure that your document is actually saved in the encoding you choose.
The html tag has no language attribute There is no language attribute in the html tag.
<html>A language attribute on the html tag sets the default natural language for the page. This information can be used for processing the content in various ways, including such things as spell-checking, accessibility, data formatting, and choice of styles for rendering the page. Every page should have the correct default language specified.
For HTML files, this should be a lang attribute. For XHTML served as HTML you should use both the lang and xml:lang attributes. For files served as XML only, you should have xml:lang, but you don't need to have the lang attribute.
Add a lang attribute that indicates the default language of your page.
Example: lang='de'
Non-UTF-8 character encoding declared The page currently uses the following non-UTF-8 character encoding declaration(s):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>UTF-8 is based on Unicode. A Unicode character encoding makes it easier to use a wide range of characters, from the registered trademark symbol to characters in multiple languages. It also simplifies the use of scripts and databases for multilingual sites, and allows you to more easily expand your site to cover new languages, when needed. Using non-UTF-8 encodings can also have unexpected results on form submission and URL encodings, which use the document's character encoding by default. It is not a requirement to use UTF-8, but the HTML5 specification recommends its use, and you should consider it.
UTF-16 is also a character encoding based on Unicode, but is little used on the Web, and generally best avoided.
Set your authoring tool to save your content as UTF-8, and change the encoding declarations.
