Re: [whatwg] Requiring the Encoding Standard preferred name is too strict for no good reason from Glenn Maynard on 2013-07-02 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 20:23:26 -0500
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <CABirCh94OVPGV2PcyCEsSC2suCyX_kz-e0Muy1aD4cZK6kPb-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> It seems bad, and maybe rather full of hubris, to make it conforming to
> use a label that we know will be interpreted in a manner that is a willful
> violation of its spec (that is, the ISO spec).
>

It's hard enough to get people to label their encodings in the first
place.  It doesn't seem like a good idea to spend people's limited
attention on encodings with "you should change your encoding label, even
though what you already have will always work", especially given how
widespread the ISO-8859-1 label is.

(FWIW, I wouldn't change a server to say windows-1252.  The ISO spec is so
far out of touch with reality that it's hard to consider it authoritative;
in reality, ISO-8859-1 is 1252.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard

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