Is the P-word? (Was: TAG Decision on Rescinding the request to the HTML WG to develop a polyglot guide)

Henri Sivonen, Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:55:53 +0200:

> Please don't support outputting encodings other than UTF-8.

Polyglot.

> Either way, XML processors are required to support UTF-8 and UTF-16.
> Support for other encodings is optional. In other words, other
> encodings are not guaranteed to work.

Only Polyglot - and neither HTML5 or XML - limits the encoding to UTF-8.

>>   - xhtml 1 or 1.1
>>   - html5, xml serialization, not poyglot
>>   - html5, xml serialization, polyglot
>> 
>> I can make the difference between the first and the two last ones based
>> on the doctype and friends. I am unable to make any difference between
>> the two last ones.
> 
> Don't support polyglot. Problem solved.

Don't support non-polyglot. Problem solved. (Don't change your message 
because of the label.)
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:16:22 UTC