Re: default charset broken

At 18:50 03/06/07 +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:

>Terje Bless <link@pobox.com> wrote in
>news:f02000001-1026-364C400E990111D7B1DF0030657B83E8@[193.157.66.
>23]:
>
> > Yes, well, in the interest of full disclosure, let me add that
> > another significant factor in the Validator's current
> > behaviour is that the HTTP defaulting behaviour is considered
> > harmfull to i18n and all those users for whom iso-8859-1 is
> > insufficient.

That was a factor when creating HTML 4, not really for the
validator, which just follows HTML 4 in that respect
(and the relevant RFC for XML, which also contradicts HTTP).


>Well, even if those users have no control over their servers,
>there are no problems, neither in theory nor in practice, to use
>characters not in ISO-8859-1. They could always use numeric
>character references (which work better anyway).

Would you ever want to try to edit a Japanese Web page with
numeric character references? Why would they work better
in such a case?


Regards,    Martin.

Received on Sunday, 8 June 2003 17:32:31 UTC