- From: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:24:38 -0400
- To: W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Mark Moore wrote: >In section 4.4 CSS style sheet representation, the specification states: > ><blockquote> >This specification does not mandate which character encodings a user agent >must support. ></blockquote> > >It seems like there must be some minimal requirement. For instance, the >ability to specify a charset with "@charset" implies the requirements >elaborated just before section 4.4.1. > >It seems support for UTF-8 is a requirement since the UA *must* assume UTF-8 >if the charset is not specified. Shouldn't the referenced passage be >modified to reflect the UTF-8 requirement? > > > > > I remember reading somewhere A CSS parser must be able to parse the content in a 'normal' charset up until the first reading of a @charset rule (or that may have been in HTML 4.01, but I thought I read it in CSS as well). which seems correct, you can also specify charset via http-headers, which may have been the intent. ~Justin Wood
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