Re: Other possible issues with the Polyglot draft

"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> So net-net I think we should ask for the following as the beginning of
> Section 3 of Polyglot [2]:
>
>    Polyglot markup uses the UTF-8 character encoding, the only character
>    encoding for which both HTML and XML require support. HTML requires
>    UTF-8 to be explicitly declared to avoid fallback to a legacy encoding
>    [HTML5]. For XML, UTF-8 is an encoding default. As such, character
>    encoding may be left undeclared in XML with the result that UTF-8 is
>    still supported [XML10].
>
>    Polyglot markup declares the UTF-8 character encoding in the following
>    ways, which may be used separately or in combination:
>
>    * Within the document
>      . By using <meta charset="UTF-8"/> (the HTML encoding
>         declaration) -- preferred
>      . By using the Byte Order Mark (BOM) character.
>
>    * Outside the document
>      . . .

+1

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                                          norm

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