- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:46:49 +0200
- To: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
In various places that deal with encoding labels, the HTML spec now requires authors to use the name of the encoding from the Encoding Standard, which means using the preferred name rather than an alias. Compared to the previous reference to the IANA registry, some names that work in all browsers but are no longer preferred names are now errors, such as iso-8859-1 and tis-620. Making broadly-supported names that were previously preferred names according to IANA now be errors does not appear to provide any utility to Web authors who use validators. Please relax the requirement so that at least previously-preferred names are not errors. zcorpan suggested (http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20130325#l-920) allowing non-preferred names for non-UTF-8 encodings. I'm not familiar with the level of browser support for all of the non-preferred aliases, but I could accept zcorpan's suggestion. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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