[Bug 6742] pre-encoded form values should be restorable as submitted

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6742





--- Comment #9 from Nick Levinson <Nick_Levinson@yahoo.com>  2009-04-02 16:26:43 ---
I think I like the preference for UTF-8. It's already preferred in HTML5. I
recall a preference in general authoring practice for UTF-8 anyway (and I use
it in websites). But, since that sounds like it would require and not just
prefer UTF-8 in the HTML5 standard, maybe someone with a preference for another
charset would like to weigh in on why not UTF-8, so concerns are recognized.

If UTF-8 is to be required, I would suggest that UTF-8 apply to the page. I
would not suggest sitewide applicability given the possibility of mixing markup
languages within a site, e.g., the practice of making sitemaps in XML though
other pages be, say, HTML.

The issue isn't specific to percent-encoding vs. encoding into character
references; any system of encoding would pass the same problem. The issue is
what and when to encode, and so the solution has to be timed and must preserve
pre-encoding.

I invited Yahoo's response, but so far I haven't heard. Do we know what
specific bug Yahoo has? I don't think that generically having dereferenced a
numeric character reference is their bug, unless we're saying that that
particular NCR should not have been dereferenced or that any NCR in that
context should not have been dereferenced, if we define the context.

-- 
Nick


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