Re: CfC: close ISSUE-126 charset-vs-backslashes by amicable resolution

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
> Julian, your change proposal claims that this is not needed for
> interoperability. Do you have any data showing this other than the
> fact that webkit-based browsers and opera does not implement this?

That's actually not a fact. The browsers are pretty consistent in their 
handling of backslashes -- none of them do what Julian's CP proposes, 
they all just treat them the same as any other punctuation:

   http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10806#c10

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