[Bug 10806] ignoring escapes is not needed for compatibility with existing content

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10806

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #6 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-09-30 03:54:05 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale:

WebKit trunk doesn't support this. Are you sure you haven't set your default
encoding to UTF-8 in Safari? What version are you testing?

Opera doesn't support this either. It just ignores all punctuation. For
instance, see:
   http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/parsing/encoding/121.html
This is known to be incompatible with legacy content, however (the spec used to
do this too, but had to change for compat reasons).

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Received on Thursday, 30 September 2010 03:54:07 UTC