[Bug 17859] locale="" attribute

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17859

--- Comment #14 from mark@macchiato.com ---
> Well we can't use lang="" itself, since that would break existing pages

​I'm not really up on this topic, and am trying to understand the issue. Is it
that if you had 

<input type="date" name="fname">

and there was an enclosing tag with lang="de-AT", that only dates appropriate
for de-AT would be accepted? 


BTW, ​I was looking at instances of 'locale' in
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#language, and
happened to run across the table:

Locale language     Suggested default encoding
ar    UTF-8
be    ISO-8859-5
bg    windows-1251
​...

This guidance may be somewhat out of date. I looked at stats for our search
indices for a few TLDs, and UTF-8 has risen significantly. For example, for
.jp, .th, and .de it is significantly greater than all other encodings
combined. For bg, mentioned above, it is about 2x all other encodings combined.
Only for .cn is it about the just less than another encoding, and for .ru just
above another encoding.

This would take a bit more work, and should be confirmed by some other search
engines, but that table might need a bit of tweaking.

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Received on Saturday, 9 March 2013 11:05:49 UTC