Re: Spec review request: CSV on the Web

Hi,

Re standardising lowercase ‘utf-8’ - this is the name given to UTF-8 in the encoding spec at [1][2].

I’ll make a separate issue re text direction for tables and get back to you.

Cheers,

Jeni

[1] https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/#names-and-labels
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On 11 June 2015 at 18:29:02, timeless (timeless@gmail.com) wrote:
> " Jeni Tennison wrote:
> > Thank you for the editorial corrections, which have mostly been incorporated into  
> https://github.com/w3c/csvw/pull/606
>  
> > One exception is the comment on RTL, LTR and UTF.
> > There are no occurrences of these that are not capitalized, except when they occur within  
> code or filenames where they should be lowercase.
>  
>
An atomic property that sets the > href="http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#dfn-encoding"
> class="externalDFN">encoding flag to the single provided string
> value, which MUST be a defined in [[!encoding]]. The default is
> "utf-8".


>  
> Unless someone actually standardized on "utf-8" as the casing+spelling
> for the encoding, which would be unfortunate.
>  
>  
> Not editorial, but is there a reason that tableDirection supports
> "default" and "textDirection" does not?
>  
>
tableDirection

>
An atomic property that MUST have a single string value
> that is one of "rtl", "ltr" or
> "default". Indicates whether the tables in the group
> should be displayed with the first column on the right, on the left,
> or based on the first character in the table that has a specific
> direction. The value of this property becomes the value of the > href="http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#dfn-table-direction"
> class="externalDFN">direction annotation for all the tables in the
> table group. See > href="http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#bidirectional-tables">Bidirectional  
> Tables in [[!tabular-data-model]] for details. The default
> value for this property is "default".
>  
>

textDirection

> An atomic property that MUST have a single string value that is
> one of "rtl" or "ltr" (the default).
> Indicates whether the text within cells should be displayed by default
> as left-to-right or right-to-left text. The value of this property
> becomes the > class="externalDFN">text direction annotation for the > href="http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#dfn-column"
> class="externalDFN">column. See > href="http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#bidirectional-tables">Bidirectional  
> Tables in [[!tabular-data-model]] for details.
>  
> > Also I have not changed comprise/comprising to comprize/comprizing - I hope that I’m  
> correct not to do so.
>  
> You're correct. The note wasn't a generic s/// wild card, more of a
> "please review all and check w/ an en-US dictionary, but please don't
> make me cite each instance".
>  
> > Please confirm that you are happy with the corrections that have been made.
>  
> I'm happy w/ what's in the diffs. I don't plan to actually review the
> document again at this time (I have a bunch of other documents I'd
> like to review first).
>

Received on Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:52:36 UTC