hixie: Clarify text that some people thought implied you had to implement aliases for encodings you didn't support (whatever that would mean). (whatwg r3682)

hixie: Clarify text that some people thought implied you had to
implement aliases for encodings you didn't support (whatever that would
mean). (whatwg r3682)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2860&r2=1.2861&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3681&to=3682

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2860
retrieving revision 1.2861
diff -u -d -r1.2860 -r1.2861
--- Overview.html 26 Aug 2009 22:28:17 -0000 1.2860
+++ Overview.html 26 Aug 2009 22:31:45 -0000 1.2861
@@ -4578,7 +4578,8 @@
 
   <p>User agents must support the preferred MIME name of every
   character encoding they support that has a preferred MIME name, and
-  should support all the IANA-registered aliases. <a href="#refsIANACHARSET">[IANACHARSET]</a></p>
+  should support all the IANA-registered aliases of every character
+  encoding they support. <a href="#refsIANACHARSET">[IANACHARSET]</a></p>
 
   <p>When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the
   name or alias of a character encoding to determine if they are
@@ -4589,9 +4590,10 @@
 <!-- this bit will be replaced by actual alias registrations in due course -->
 
   <p>In addition, user agents must support the aliases given in the
-  following table, so that labels from the first column are treated as
-  equivalent to the labels given in the corresponding cell from the
-  second column on the same row.</p>
+  following table for every character encoding they support, so that
+  labels from the first column are treated as equivalent to the labels
+  given in the corresponding cell from the second column on the same
+  row.</p>
 
   <table><caption>Additional character encoding aliases</caption>
    <thead><tr><th> Alias <th> Corresponding encoding <th> References
@@ -7907,7 +7909,7 @@
    <p>To avoid this confusion, explicit <code><a href="#the-p-element">p</a></code> elements can be
    used.</p>
 
-  </div><h4 id="annotations-for-assistive-technology-products"><span class="secno">3.2.6 </span><dfn>Annotations for assistive technology products</dfn></h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>First draft. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/14">ISSUE-14</a> (aria-role) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/35">ISSUE-35</a> (aria-processing) block progress to Last Call</span><p>Authors may use the ARIA <code title="attr-aria-role">role</code>
+  </div><h4 id="annotations-for-assistive-technology-products"><span class="secno">3.2.6 </span><dfn>Annotations for assistive technology products</dfn></h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>First draft. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/35">ISSUE-35</a> (aria-processing) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/14">ISSUE-14</a> (aria-role) block progress to Last Call</span><p>Authors may use the ARIA <code title="attr-aria-role">role</code>
   and <code title="attr-aria-*">aria-*</code> attributes on <a href="#html-elements">HTML
   elements</a>, in accordance with the requirements described in
   the ARIA specifications, except where these conflict with the
@@ -48384,7 +48386,7 @@
   <a href="#source-browsing-context">source browsing context</a>.</p>
 
 
-  <h5 id="hyperlink-auditing"><span class="secno">6.12.2.1 </span><dfn>Hyperlink auditing</dfn></h5><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Controversial Working Draft. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/2">ISSUE-2</a> (PINGUI), <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/63">ISSUE-63</a> (origin-req-scope) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/1">ISSUE-1</a> (PINGPOST) block progress to Last Call</span></p>
+  <h5 id="hyperlink-auditing"><span class="secno">6.12.2.1 </span><dfn>Hyperlink auditing</dfn></h5><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Controversial Working Draft. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/1">ISSUE-1</a> (PINGPOST), <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/2">ISSUE-2</a> (PINGUI) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/63">ISSUE-63</a> (origin-req-scope) block progress to Last Call</span></p>
 
   <p>If an <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> or <code><a href="#the-area-element">area</a></code> hyperlink element has a
   <code title="attr-hyperlink-ping"><a href="#ping">ping</a></code> attribute, and the

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