- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:08:41 +0100
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:50:04 +0100, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote: > [...] > > Spurious Cp1252 is a real problem. In fact, incorrectly labeled encoding > is a real problem, and a thorny one. Draconian error handling in XML > solves this, but I'm not sure what HTML 5 should do here. It's worth > thinking about though. It's also worth reviewing the work the W3C TAG > and I18N working groups did on this issue since a lot of smart people > did a lot of thinking about this quite recently: > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect-20060412 > http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/ > > I don't remember the exact outcome myself, except that it's a really > ugly problem that truly requires some changes in what options webmasters > give to web content creators. How does requiring changes solve the problem for content that's out there? This doesn't make much sense to me. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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