[Bug 7778] "interpreted as a character encoding" is not linked to a defined algorithm

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7778


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-10-18 22:26:34 ---
The attribute's value is a string. A character encoding is a mapping of byte
sequences to Unicode codepoints. So the attribute's value (the character
encoding name) has to be interpreted as a character encoding to use it. It
doesn't mean anything more than that.

Does that make sense? Is there better (but still accurate) terminology that I
can use?


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