- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:35:16 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv1229
Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
Recommend against support for EBCDIC-based encodings. (credit: hs) (whatwg r2125)
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 29 Aug 2008 09:24:19 -0000 1.1296
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encodings. <a href="#references">[CESU8]</a> <a href="#references">[UTF7]</a>
<a href="#references">[BOCU1]</a> <a href="#references">[SCSU]</a>
+ <p>Support for encodings based on EBCDIC is not recommended. This encoding
+ is rarely used for publicly-facing Web content.
+
<p>Support for UTF-32 is not recommended. This encoding is rarely used, and
frequently misimplemented.
<p class=note>This specification does not make any attempt to support
- UTF-32 in its algorithms; support and use of UTF-32 can thus lead to
- unexpected behavior in implementations of this specification.
+ EBCDIC-based encodings and UTF-32 in its algorithms; support and use of
+ these encodings can thus lead to unexpected behavior in implementations of
+ this specification.
<h5 id=preprocessing><span class=secno>8.2.2.3. </span>Preprocessing the
input stream</h5>
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