- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 04:52:52 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Eliot Graff <eliotgra@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
> In > addition, the meta tag may be used in the absence of a BOM as long as > it matches the already specified encoding. Note that the W3C > Internationalization (i18n) Group recommends to always include a > visible encoding declaration in a document, because it helps > developers, testers, or translation production managers to check the > encoding of a document visually. I object to the polyglot markup doc saying that things are permitted when HTML5 says they aren't permitted. HTML5 doesn't permit <meta charset="UTF-16">. If the i18n group wishes to change that, the procedurally proper way is to escalate http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10890 once it has been WONTFIXed (and I expect it to be WONTFIXed)--not to try to get the polyglot markup doc changed ahead of the spec. (Of course, I'd prefer http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10890 to be WONTFIXed and the i18n group not escalating it.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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