- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:35:41 +1100
Hi, Given that the spec now says that ISO-8859-1 must be treated as Windows-1252, should it still be considered an error to use the C1 control characters (U+0080 to U+009F) if ISO-8859-1 is declared? Some relevant messages from IRC: [15:59] <Lachy> since the spec says if ISO-8859-1 is declared, Windows-1252 must be used. Is it still an error for authors to use the C1 control characters in the range 128-159? [16:23] <Hixie> Lachy: not sure what we should do, there's a bunch of corner cases there. like, should we allow control chars anyway, should we allow ISO-8859-1 to be declared but Win1252 to be used, etc. [16:23] <Hixie> Lachy: can you mail the list with suggestions and a list of the cases you can think of that we should cover? [16:27] <Hixie> interesting. the list got its first explicit request for us to _not_ remove the significant inline content rule [16:27] <Lachy> I'm having a hard time deciding if it should be allowed or not [16:28] <Lachy> Technically, it is an error and I think users should be notified, but it's practically harmless these days and very common. [16:30] <Lachy> Yet, doing the same thing in XML doesn't work, since XML parsers do treat them as control characters -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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