[Bug 10890] New: i18n comment : Allow utf-16 meta encoding declarations

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10890

           Summary: i18n comment : Allow utf-16 meta encoding declarations
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: public-i18n-core@w3.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org


Comment from the i18n review of:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Comment 8
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0802-html5/
Editorial/substantive: S
Tracked by: RI

Location in reviewed document:
4.2.5.5 Specifying the document's character encoding
[http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/semantics.html#charset]

Comment: Currently you are not allowed to use <meta charset="utf-16"> or the
equivalent pragma directive in utf-16 encoded documents. While logically it is
not needed to identify the character encoding, it introduces a special case for
authors to remember, and almost certainly many authors will be unaware that
this is disallowed and will do it. In addition, in-document declarations of
this kind are particularly useful for developers, testers, or translation
production managers who want to visually check the encoding of a document
(since the bom cannot be seen). Furthermore, there would appear to be no risk
incurred by allowing this, since the document would be encoded in utf-16
anyway.

Note that the ask is not that the encoding of the document be determined by the
meta element - the bom remains the way of determining that information - solely
that no error or warning be raised if the meta element is used.

Please make an exception in the spec for utf-16 so that it is allowed to use
<meta charset="utf-16"> or the equivalent pragma directive in utf-16 encoded
documents.

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Received on Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:56:13 UTC