- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:21:54 -0700
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, addison@yahoo-inc.com
On Aug 14, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak On 09-08-14 08.30: > >> On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:06 PM, 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. >>> The default is defined at <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#determining-the-character-encoding >>> >, >>> step #7. > > > I don't feel that you correctly represent the debate and progress > that has been on this issue. (And neither does the Tracker ...) > > Due to debate this year, section 4.2.5.5 now has this: > >> Authors are encouraged to use UTF-8. Conformance checkers may >> advise against authors using legacy encodings. >> Authoring tools should default to using UTF-8 for newly-created >> documents. >> Using non-UTF-8 encodings can have unexpected results on form >> submission and URL encodings, which use the document's >> character encoding by default. > > So, it seems the issue can be closed _because_ there has been some > progress ... Good point. Fortunately this will now be represented in the tracker. I agree that this text is useful forward progress on the issue. Regards, Maciej
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