Be less judgmental about certain encodings... (bug 6858) (whatwg r3341)

Be less judgmental about certain encodings... (bug 6858) (whatwg r3341)
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6858

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2479&r2=1.2480&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3340&to=3341

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 29 Jun 2009 11:24:24 -0000 1.2479
+++ Overview.html 29 Jun 2009 23:29:14 -0000 1.2480
@@ -1551,11 +1551,12 @@
   to support do things outside that range?  -->, ignoring bytes that
   are the second and later bytes of multibyte sequences, all
   correspond to single-byte sequences that map to the same Unicode
-  characters as those bytes in ANSI_X3.4-1968 (US-ASCII). <a href="#references">[RFC1345]</a><p class="note">This includes such exotic encodings as Shift_JIS and
-  variants of ISO-2022, even though it is possible for bytes like 0x70
-  to be part of longer sequences that are unrelated to their
-  interpretation as ASCII. It excludes such encodings as UTF-7,
-  UTF-8+names, UTF-16, HZ-GB-2312, GSM03.38, and EBCDIC variants.</p><!--
+  characters as those bytes in ANSI_X3.4-1968 (US-ASCII). <a href="#references">[RFC1345]</a><p class="note">This includes such encodings as Shift_JIS and
+  variants of ISO-2022, even though it is possible in this encodings
+  for bytes like 0x70 to be part of longer sequences that are
+  unrelated to their interpretation as ASCII. It excludes such
+  encodings as UTF-7, UTF-16, HZ-GB-2312, GSM03.38, and EBCDIC
+  variants.</p><!--
    We'll have to change that if anyone comes up with a way to have a
    document that is valid as two different encodings at once, with
    different <meta charset> elements applying in each case.

Received on Monday, 29 June 2009 23:30:17 UTC