[Larry] > I'm interested in reducing ambiguity and making web transactions more reliable +1 > I also would be opposed to making an incompatible change with actual current behavior. +1 > Yes, supplying explicit charset is preferable More: one should move toward making it mandatory in the HTTP header. Anything else should be deprecated, but be live in an imperfect world ... > New behavior: IF you see, say, <doctype html5> THEN assume default charset is UTF8 rather than applying heuristics to guess charset. UTF8 should be the last option in a set of rules; e.g., - Get if from the HTTP header - If not, get if from META - If not, ... - if not UTF8 TomasReceived on Monday, 1 June 2009 20:34:34 GMT
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