Re: [HTML5] 2.8 Character encodings

Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote:
> ...
> I can write the string, but indeed, if I do it, it means 'Windows-1252'.
> Therefore effectively, I cannot indicate, that something is 
> 'ISO-8859-1' and not 'Windows-1252'.
> ...

Olaf, from what you write it's not totally clear that you realize that 
ISO-8859-1 is a proper subset of Windows-1252?

So the only difference would be the ability to diagnose problems in 
documents that claim to be ISO-8859-1, but actually use C1 control codes.

That being said, I do agree with Larry that the spec should phrase it 
differently.

BR, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 11:36:54 UTC