[Bug 10283] Restrict the permittance to use the META charset elemetn in XHTML5

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10283


Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2010-08-02 09:16:24 ---
You right ... 

But to answer your question: Because the note (which stands out, than thus
calls for attention), unlike the sentence before the note, makes it seem as if
meta@charset is permitted regardless of its content.

For example, in the debate in public-html before I filed this bug, I did not
spot anyone that pointed to this limitation in the XHTML5 syntax as
justification for not permitting anything more than UTF-8 inside the
meta@charset element.

I suggest the following clarification:

<blockquote cite="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics#meta">
The charset attribute on the meta element has no effect in XML
documents<ins>.</ins><del>,</del><ins>But the presence of the charset attribute
with the value "UTF-8"</ins> is <del>only</del> allowed in order to facilitate
migration to and from XHTML.
</blockquote>

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