Document previously implicit UTF-8 expectation for parameter values.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/htdocs/docs/api.html b/htdocs/docs/api.html
index 1d72dde..c408714 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/api.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/api.html
@@ -35,7 +35,12 @@ SOAP 1.2 validation interface documentation</h2>
 
 <h3 id="requestformat">Validation Request Format</h3>
 
-<p>Below is a table of the parameter you can use to send a query to the W3C Markup Validator.</p>
+<p>
+  Below is a table of the parameter you can use to send a query to the W3C
+  Markup Validator. All parameter values except data in
+  <code>uploaded_file</code> are expected to be encoded in the UTF-8 character
+  encoding.
+</p>
 <p>If you want to use W3C's public validation server, use the parameters below
  in conjunction with the following base URI:<br />
 <kbd>http://validator.w3.org/check</kbd> <br />
@@ -64,8 +69,7 @@ is appreciated. thanks.</p>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <th>fragment</th>
-  <td>The source of the document to validate. Full documents only. 
-  At the moment, will only work if data is sent with the UTF-8 encoding.</td>
+  <td>The source of the document to validate. Full documents only.</td>
   <td>None, but either this parameter, or <code>uri</code>,
   or <code>uploaded_file</code> must be given.</td>
 </tr>
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/users.html b/htdocs/docs/users.html
index 367ae6a..27c7d67 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/users.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/users.html
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@
       on, but "Verbose" off.
     </p>
     <p>
+      All parameter values should be encoded in the UTF-8 character encoding
+      (before URI escaping them).
+    </p>
+    <p>
       You may also see these separated by ampersands, but this usage is
       deprecated and support may be removed at some time in the future.
     </p>