- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:12:58 -0500
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Cc: "WWW Style" <www-style@w3.org>
> I don't mind having that rule. I was just wondering if it was worth
> adding. XHTML 2, e.g., doesn't have CHARSET on LINK anymore.
But see also <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/>, which _does_ define the
pseudo-attr "charset"....
> I haven't thought about the CSSOM. I just meant "remove" in the sense
> that the CSS parser may start parsing after the @charset, since it has
> already been dealt with (namely by ignoring it).
Ah, ok. That's not so bad, then. ;)
> What goes into the CSSOM I don't know. Does @charset belong in the
> CSSOM?
It's useful for saving stylesheets (eg the "save page, complete" functionality
some browsers support which saves all the associated images, sheets, etc).
> > > 2e) If the first bytes are FE FF xx, where xx is not 00, use UTF-16-BE.
> > > Remove the first two bytes. If they are followed by "@charset
> > > <anything>;", remove that as well.
> >
> > "xx" corresponds to two bytes here, I assume?
>
> One byte is enough, I think.
Note that I asked this for UTF-16BE. In almost all cases, that next byte
_will_ be 0 in this encoding.
Boris
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Received on Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:25:05 UTC