- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:25:52 +0100
- To: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
This is the CSS WG's response to an issue you raised on the last CSS
2.1 draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915). We want to
publish CSS 2.1 as a CR in about two weeks. Please let us know this
week if you think our response is wrong.
Your e-mail:
http://www.w3.org/mid/3F8DBE91.7A3671E@i18nguy.com
2) Section 4.4 on CSS document representation
Mention should be made of the Unicode BOM and its relationship to
the encoding of the file.
Is BOM allowed?
The @charset rule is required to be the first character of the file.
For some people, it is confusing whether the BOM is considered a
character. (To me it is clear that it is not.)
Reply: http://www.w3.org/mid/20031015223936.GB5773@darby.dbaron.org
Response: http://www.w3.org/mid/3F8DDC83.8FE77A0B@i18nguy.com
CSS WG response:
[This is a response to the response to issue 44 as well.]
The new text reads:
When a style sheet resides in a separate file, user agents must
observe the following priorities when determining a style
sheet's character encoding (from highest priority to lowest):
1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field
2. The @charset at-rule
3. BOM
4. <link charset=""> or other metadata from the linking
mechanism (if any)
5. charset of referring document (if any)
6. UA-dependent mechanisms
For the CSS WG,
Bert
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