[Bug 21818] XHTML5: Permit <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21818

--- Comment #8 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> ---
Speaking as a validator developer, I don't like this change at all and it's
disappointing to see it landing prematurely. It introduces an unnecessary
incompatibility with the WHATWG spec, and it's highly unlikely that the WHATWG
spec is going to change based just on the arguments presented in this bug. I
don't think Leif has demonstrated why the change is needed (the arguments
presented in comment 3 are not convincing) nor worked to try to get consensus
about it.

(In reply to comment #0)
> JUSTIFICATION: This encoding declaration is more robust than the
> meta@charset declaration. Therefore we want this method in Polyglt Markup.
> But to allow it in Polyglot Markup, it must first be permitted in the HTML5
> proper.

I suggest then that the Polyglot spec be turned into an extension spec, and
then you can override requirements in the HTML spec. I think making further
changes to the HTML spec itself to accommodate the Polyglot spec is not a good
idea.

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