- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:22:10 -0500
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
Richard, These conflict: "C027 [S] Specifications that require a default encoding MUST define either UTF-8 or UTF-16 as the default, or both if they define suitable means of distinguishing them." -- http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#C027 "User agents must at a minimum support the UTF-8 and Windows-1252 encodings, but may support more." -- 8.2.2.2. Character encoding requirements http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ I don't think that aspect of the HTML 5 spec is going to change; it's already ubiquitously deployed: "Many web browsers treat the MIME charset ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252 " -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 Any suggestions on what to do about the conflict? It's not clear to me why C027 is a MUST. Which WG(s) should we be talking to? p.s. note the cc to www-archive; i.e. feel free to copy/cite/forward anywhere. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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