[Bug 13771] Encodings 'misinterpreted for compatibility' should risk fatal error in XHTML

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13771

--- Comment #4 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-08-13 18:52:23 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think this is actually a feature of those browsers.

Could be interesting to know why you think so given what you state in the
following sentences.


> Having less encodings is a benefit.

Indeed. But that sounds like an argument in favour of emitting fatal error - as
required by XML 1.0 - whenever the browser stumbles upon an encoding label for
an encoding that it does not support.


> Not having to support US-ASCII on its own but always treating it as
> Windows-1252 is how the specifications should turn out to be in the end.

That *could* be be interpreted as an argument for not supporting whether
US-ASCII or WINDOWS-1252 in XML parsers.

But if you seriously thinks that US-ASCII should become a legal alias for
WINDOWS-1252 in XML then I guess relevant bugs filed against XML 1.0 and - I
suppose - the IANA registry, will soon be filed - unless it has happened
already?

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Received on Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:52:28 UTC