- From: Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:27:15 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: public-webapi@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:11:37 +0100, <addison@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: >> Comment: >> Before the section on charset detection in Section 2, there should be >> a health warning stating something like: >> >> -- >> For interoperability, the use of a Unicode encoding, particularly >> UTF-8, is RECOMMENDED. Non-Unicode encodings are difficult to detect >> and effectively limit the range of character data that can be >> transmitted reliably. >> -- > > This seems like good advice for an author tutorial. As you can tell, the > XMLHttpRequest specification is not really intended for authors. Having > said that, I should probably remove the last mentioning of "authors" out > of the specification. > > I know that the spec isn't intended for authors. However: authors do read these specifications. I don't think including a health warning here would be unnecessarily burdensome: our working group would, I believe, prefer it to be included. Thanks, Addison -- Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc. Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature.
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