[whatwg] Why is the replacement encoding called "replacement" and not "x-replacement"? from Peter Occil on 2013-04-12 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from April 2013)

From: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:17:12 -0400
To: <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <D3B3B1221D9043FD9C558085BAECC8A6@PeterPC>

Why is the replacement encoding called "replacement" and not "x-replacement"?

As far as I can tell there is no character set or alias called "replacement" in the IANA character
sets list, so accordingly, the replacement encoding should begin with "x-", as in
"x-user-defined", also in the Encoding standard.

Received on Friday, 12 April 2013 11:18:05 UTC