- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:41:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > > I suppose the big pivot point is "as if". A byte-wise implementation > would replace character globally with byte, and any U+xxxx designation > with the UTF-8 encoded byte version. HTML 5 dictates end behavior, not > the actual algorithm implementation, no? Right; conformance requirements phrased as algorithms or specific steps may be implemented in any manner, so long as the end result is equivalent. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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