[Bug 10150] New: [polyglot] i18n comment 2 : In-document declarations always useful

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10150

           Summary: [polyglot] i18n comment 2 : In-document declarations
                    always useful
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#c
                    haracter-encoding
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML/XHTML Compatibility Authoring Guide (ed: Eliot
                    Graff)
        AssignedTo: eliotgra@microsoft.com
        ReportedBy: ishida@w3.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org,
                    public-i18n-core@w3.org, eliotgra@microsoft.com


Comment from the i18n review of:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/

Comment 2
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/1007-polyglot/
Editorial/substantive: S
Tracked by: RI

Location in reviewed document:
3. Character Encoding
[http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#character-encoding]

Comment: 
"In addition, polyglot markup need not include the meta charset declaration,
because the parser would have to read UTF-16 in order to parse it by
definition."


The i18n WG guidelines recommend, nevertheless, that you always include a
visible encoding declaration in your document, since it helps developers,
testers, or translation production managers who want to visually check the
encoding of a document. So it's true to say that you strictly don't need it,
but we would prefer that people do. Please could you reflect that in your
document.

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Received on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:50:03 UTC