- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 03:16:19 +0200
- To: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Kornel Lesiński, Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:54:37 +0100: > On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:55:28 +0100, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: [...] > However, some authors might want to test polyglot documents opened > from disk [...] >> We have several reason to introduce it. But I agree that there are also >> reasons to no introduce it. > > I'm not aware of reasons other than ability to declare legacy > encodings in XML. What are the other reasons for it? Use case: To open non-UTF-8/non-UTF-16 encoded documents from the disc. (See your own comment above.= Opening such documents as XHTML documents, become impractical without an encoding declaration that XHTML tools/consumers understand. -- leif halvard silli
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