Encoding spec status

On 10/09/2013 16:50, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com> wrote:
>> We (W3C) can publish a working draft of our version any time. I'm also set up to take updates from Anne as needed. I see there is a version dated 5 September that I can take now. I'll let Anne comment on the relative status of the WhatWG version.
>
> It's WHATWG.
>
> There's still some open issues, but I've made some substantial
> improvements around error handling. I plan on making the algorithms
> and encoding "class hierarchy" a bit clearer too, as well as
> explaining the concept of streams more clearly.
>
> What's most important still is implementation feedback. The API has
> been implemented and is generally found useful. Implementations have
> started tweaking their encoding tables and label data, but it's still
> a long way to go.
>
> Could we please communicate in public about this going forward? A
> simple cc to www-archive would be fine for me.
>

To help things along I've just spent some time fixing validation errors 
(bugs) in the source code of the file at 
http://www.w3.org/International/docs/encoding/

Closing tags are missing for all tds, li's and most p's, and that will 
cause problems for publication.  Can either of you point me to a tidy 
tool that will clean that up automatically for html5?

RI



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Richard Ishida

Received on Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:56:16 UTC