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Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2010-10-07 21:33:39 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> On the other hand, if we don't allow charset=utf-16, then every tutorial, every
> primer, every book, every checker, etc, has to make a detour to explain how
> UTF-16 is different from anything else when telling people how to use encoding
> related markup, which is annoying for both the writer and the reader given that
> we don't want people to use it anyway.
No, all those tutorials/primers/books/checkers just have to tell people to use
UTF-8. Then the problem doesn't arise. I doubt any of them actually cover
character encodings beyond saying "Use UTF-8" -- the complexity of other
encodings is just not needed today.
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