Re: Please send feedback on Character encoding tutorial

Hi Richard,

I did not see the mail for the wide review yet, so this is going to the
public list. As said on the call, these are minor comments.

"The character encoding reflects the way these abstract characters are
mapped to ...": Propose to change this to "The character encoding reflects
the way the coded character set is mapped to ..."


"The code point values for each character are listed immediately below the
glyph for that character at the top of the diagram. ": Maybe add a word
about what a glyph is?

Some of the link targets inside the document could have different names,
e.g.
 http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/temp#Slide0150 as
the target of "Mime type" in "using the text/html MIME type". But probably
you are planning to update that anyway.

"you should use the @charset rule": the link for "@charset" is borken.

"XML has a slightly different syntax to HTML,": this should probably be
"XHTML has a slightly different syntax to HTML,".

You may want to add a sentence introducing this figure
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/images/served-as.gif
(the summary of the language - mime type - "treated as" options)

"should definitely be used if transcoding is likely": you may add a short
definition (you give one later: "transcode the data (ie. convert to a
different encoding). ")

"see Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM": there is a full stop
missing.

Best,

Felix


2010/1/29 Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>

> Chaps,
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> I have been updating, in a separate copy, the tutorial Character sets &
> encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS, and would like feedback on it prior to
> sending for wide review.
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> See http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/temp
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> I added a lot of material, eg. related to the BOM, normalization, etc., and
> I rearranged the material significantly.  The rearrangement was to downplay
> slightly the XHTML 1.0 issues, given that that is now only relevant to IE6,
> but also to help readers quickly find information they need for the format
> they are dealing with.
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> I also removed the distinction between XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 wrt MIME
> types, since the XHTML2 WG is hopefully very close to issuing a PER that
> enables XHTML 1.1 to be served as text/html.  I also added information about
> HTML5.
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> I also added in updates to sections that correspond to an faq article that
> has been updated.
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> Please let me know if there are topics I forgot to include, as well as
> commenting on the structure and editorial aspects.
>
> Thanks,
> RI
>
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> Richard Ishida
> Internationalization Lead
> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
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