Re: SVG 1.2 Comment: image/svg+xml;charset=""

* Chris Lilley wrote:
>BH> Are you saying that the proposed registration would avoid that, i.e.,
>BH> that http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/utf8-or-iso-8859-1.svg must be
>BH> considered UTF-8 encoded by all implementations?
>
>Tell, me, what happens if you read that file from local disk on your
>server, or run xslt on it? How do you tell the implementations to ignore
>the well formedness error?

XML 1.0 defines no constraint (neither wf-constraint nor fatal errors)
that would consider the document in this state non-compliant, the doc
is both legal UTF-8 and legal ISO-8859-1. Regarding the other questions,
I would not do that, but if I did I would tell the relevant tool of the
higher-level encoding information just like I do when processing HTML
documents, e.g. when using HTML Tidy on a UTF-8 encoded document I use
the -utf8 command line switch as I have not yet implemented something
else. For other tools, I've implemented encoding detection for HTML/XML
documents in the HTML::Encoding Perl module (which, btw, would consider
the document cited above ISO-8859-1, honoring the charset parameter).