FYI, for the Unicode conference I updated the Unicode Growth chart to with newer data. It continues the trends we found about 15 months earlier. http://www.macchiato.com/main/updated-unicode-growth Mark On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 21:14, Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com> wrote: > I'm a little late to this discussion, so please forgive me if I'm covering > ground people have already discussed. > > But focusing on advice to developers, I'd suggest replacing 6 and 7 in > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#determining-the-character-encoding, > by the following 3 numbered items. > > - Test if the bytes are valid UTF-8. If they are, return return that > encoding, with the confidence<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#concept-encoding-confidence> > *tentative*, and abort these steps. > - *[include note about UTF-8 patterns, maybe reworded a bit.]* > - The user agent may attempt to autodetect the character encoding *[include > rest of #5]* > - Otherwise, return an implementation-defined or user-specified default > character encoding, with the confidence<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#concept-encoding-confidence> > *tentative*. Due to its widespread use as a default in legacy content, > windows-1252 is recommended as a default in the absences of other > information. > > > Mark > > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 19:57, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:39, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: >> >> Can someone please explain, again, why the discussion of default >>> configurations of a particular category of user agent in various >>> regions belongs in the definition of the HyperText Markup Language? >>> >>> What benefit can any author of a web page derive, please, from >>> knowing what the default settings of various browsers in products >>> sold into various language environments? >>> >> >> Authors aren't the only target audience of this specification. >> Implementors benefit from advice suggesting default encodings. Users benefit >> from consistency in implementations. >> >> -- >> Ian Hickson >> >> >Received on Monday, 12 October 2009 04:29:12 GMT
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