- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:44:32 -0600
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> If you omit the charset, I think it will attempt to default to >> windows-1252. At least, it apparently will with text/html. Not sure > >> ... > > I don't think this is true. As far as I can tell, the default is impl/local > specific. True, but having the US locale and possibly others default to windows-1252 is still a bad thing. It's an annoying legacy constraint that causes problems every time I forget to write the charset meta in my pages. > Anyway, adding a BOM should be sufficient for triggering UTF-8. Adding a BOM to the data url? Why would I do that? That's less bytes than the charset declaration, but more difficult to remember and enormously more arcane. >> what happens with text/html-sandboxed. >> >> The DOCTYPE is required or else the page will be in quirks mode. > > Well, that's something we could change for text/html-sandboxed. Also, we > could allow fragments of HTML. (Or even require them?) Indeed, that seems like it could be a good solution. ~TJ
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