[Bug 17859] locale="" attribute

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17859

--- Comment #15 from Martin Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> BTW, ​I was looking at instances of 'locale' in
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#language, and
> happened to run across the table:
> 
> Locale language  Suggested default encoding
> ar UTF-8
> be ISO-8859-5
> bg windows-1251
> ​...
> 
> This guidance may be somewhat out of date. I looked at stats for our search
> indices for a few TLDs, and UTF-8 has risen significantly.

Even if 99% of all pages use UTF-8, the default encoding in this table may be
right because it may be the percentage of unlabeled pages that counts, or it
may be the percentage of not-easily detectable pages (UTF-8 is easy to detect)
that counts, or something similar.

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Received on Saturday, 9 March 2013 11:46:22 UTC