- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:08:18 +0200
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > But you *did* in fact say to Henri that it seemed logical if Firefox, > for Indian languages, defaults to either *Windows 1252* or UTF-8. If > there is a free choice between win 1252 and UTF-8, then Win-1252 would > be illogical to select. I don't see how it would be illogical to select Windows-1252: you can detect whether the document is UTF-8, then conclude it isn't and fallback to Windows-1252. It makes little sense to make an encoding that can be reliably detected a final-chance fallback. If you make UTF-8 the fallback, you'll likely end up with a lot of pages with a lot of U+FFFD characters shown in them. That doesn't seem very practical. -- Geoffrey Sneddon — Opera Software <http://gsnedders.com/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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