- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:51:49 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:32 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/11 > > There has been little discussion since the issue is raised. For > compatibility reasons, it is not practical to make UTF-8 the default > encoding for HTML5 - I believe no implementor of browsers or other > influential HTML consumers would be willing to make that change. > Therefore I propose we close ISSUE-11 in favor of the current spec text. I can't find the relevant current spec text. Help? The comment that prompted the issue was regarding "Due to its use in legacy content, windows-1252 is recommended as a default in predominantly Western demographics." but I can't find that text or anything like it either in the relevant section of the HTML 5 spec http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#character-encodings-0 nor in [MIMESNIFF] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-abarth-mime-sniff-01 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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