- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:37:03 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday, February 23, 2004, 7:25:40 PM, Henri wrote: HS> Although the default guess is configurable, the default guess for the HS> default guess is windows-1252 even when it's called ISO-8859-1. That's twisted enough that I want to add it to a quotes page. >> Using this instead of looking at the linking document will break >> Japanese pages >> that use Shift_JIS and Japanese classnames and don't specify the >> encoding (lots >> and lots of those). In fact, such pages were the reason Mozilla added >> the >> "look at the linking document" thing, if I recall correctly.... HS> I wasn't aware there was a substantial number of Japanese authors who HS> actually dare to use non-ASCII identifiers without declaring their HS> encoding. Sure, because a) there are not that many (Shift-JIS (or rather the group of subtly different/very similar encodings called Shift-JIS), EUC-JP, and iso-2022-jp (more for emailthan web pages). b) Japanese uses many more characters than european, alphabetic languages and with a very regular patterning (eg use of Kanji with kana word ending) so autodetection works very well,assuming the input is in fact in japanese language. Or English. If its in French, say, then it breaks. HS> Over here (Finland) people usually don't dare to use HS> non-ASCII for any markup, style sheet or programming language HS> identifiers even when they're supposed to be supported. ;-) -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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