- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:40:48 -0500
- To: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Grosso, Paul scripsit: > Here is the latest in the "charset on xml-stylesheet pi" issue on > which I hope you can comment. This is recorded as Issue kay-3 at > http://www.w3.org/XML/2010/01/disposition.html#issue-kay-3 . To recap what I said in the meeting: charset is never anything more than a hint which a browser can use to discard spreadsheets whose encoding it cannot handle, or a last-resort mechanism of determining the encoding if neither the HTTP header nor the document contains any information. Not having an XML encoding declaration means that the encoding of an XML document is UTF-8 if there is no 16-BOM, or UTF-16 if there is, so in effect it is true that the charset PA is fairly worthless for stylesheets written in XML. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan If a traveler were informed that such a man [as Lord John Russell] was leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshiped an insect. --Benjamin Disraeli
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