- From: M.T. Carrasco Benitez <mtcarrascob@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:33:56 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Travis Leithead <Travis.Leithead@microsoft.com>, Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Harley Rosnow <Harley.Rosnow@microsoft.com>
[Larry]
> I'm interested in reducing ambiguity and making web transactions more reliable
+1
> I also would be opposed to making an incompatible change with actual current behavior.
+1
> Yes, supplying explicit charset is preferable
More: one should move toward making it mandatory in the HTTP header. Anything else should be deprecated, but be live in an imperfect world ...
> New behavior: IF you see, say, <doctype html5> THEN assume default charset is UTF8 rather than applying heuristics to guess charset.
UTF8 should be the last option in a set of rules; e.g.,
- Get if from the HTTP header
- If not, get if from META
- If not, ...
- if not UTF8
Tomas
Received on Monday, 1 June 2009 20:34:34 UTC