RE: This weeks Q&A

At 07:46 03/05/12 +0100, Richard Ishida wrote:

about http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html
(please keep the link in at the top, it's much easier for others
to look at it this way).


>Thanks for putting this up.  Just a few ideas from a quick initial
>reading.  I'll look at it again later.
>
>-       I'm beginning to think we should standardise on (X)HTML rather
>than X/HTML, which could be in some contexts be interpreted as XML/HTML.

fixed, probably worth asking Masayasu.

>-       maybe "as the page where the form was on."  -> "as the page
>containing the form."

done


>-       I think it may be good to more clearly state that you start by
>using uft-8 for the encoding of your page.  I know that's there in the
>logic, but as these are educational pages I think it will be good to
>state it fairly obviously.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Please feel free to just
edit it in.



>-       Instead of "There are various ways to do this, all <<described
>here>>" , I'd prefer "There are <<various ways to do this.>> - helps the
>person scanning find the info better.

done


>-       "it is important that the browser gets told that the form page
>is in UTF-8" -> "it is important to tell the browser that the form page
>is in UTF-8"

done

>-       the 'second' part begs the questions: [1] why wouldn't it be in
>utf-8, if you'd specified that for the page, [2] what do I do if it
>isn't utf-8 or correctly formed utf-8?

done


>-       the version info is incorrect for some reason

Amaya cut the line. I fixed it, but it may happen again.
Maybe less info would be more.


>-       the page is not served as UTF-8 !  Oops, perhaps we should have
>run your Perl script on it ;-)  On a more serious note, perhaps we could
>change the default encoding for pages in the geo directory so that they
>are utf-8 unless otherwise specified.

Very much so. And the earlier the better
(it's called 'eating our own dog food' :-).


>Do you know how to do that?

You have to know that. See e.g. the .htaccess file in /International/ws


Regards,    Martin.

Received on Monday, 12 May 2003 07:27:18 UTC