No Character Encoding Support ?

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Im trying to make my pages W3C compliant, however my pages always fail the first test

http://validator.w3.org/

No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
    I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the "UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.

The FAQ says that character encoding is passed to the browser through the HTTP headers, and then gives instructions on how to configure appache and other servers to give the correct character encoding.

I have run the main page of Xisto.com though the validator, and although Xisto is not W3C compliant, it passes the character encoding test.

so it seems the server is configured fine... any idea's whats going wrong ???


EDIT:
sorry, solved.
it seems apache here is configured to only send char encoding if there is a character encoding meta tag.
the wc3 tutorial assumed that the server was confiigured to auto-detect the char encoding.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

SOLVED.