- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:50:48 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 29, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >>> Understood. The alternative (which I think should be seriously >>> considered) is to break those pages, and to always use UTF-8 for >>> encoding. >> I can only spec that if browsers are willing to do it. So far, my >> understanding is that they are not. (There's no point writing a >> spec that isn't followed, the whole point of the spec is to define >> what should happen to get interoperability.) > > Understood again, but maybe it makes sense to ask the question > again, now that all browser vendors are actually part of the same > specification effort. To my knowledge, using the page encoding for the query part of the URL is still required for interoperability with a number of servers. We would not be willing to break those servers. Regards, Maciej
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