- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:30:10 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hello Wendy, At 17:52 19/07/2005, Wendy Chisholm wrote: >Hello Christophe, > >Good catch. I don't think we need to open a bug, I think this was just an >editing error and we should have used the definition from the 9 June telecon: > >>However, the resolution from the 9 June telecon reads: >>"A sequence of characters. Characters are those included in the Unicode / >>ISO / IEC 106464 repertoire." >>(http://www.w3.org/2005/06/09-wai-wcag-minutes.html) > > >I'll fix the source right now. Thanks. Just a minor editorial comment: could you delete the spaces before and after the slash in "ISO/IEC"? (ISO and IEC work together on UCS; the Unicode consortium works on Unicode.) >>In the GL 1.1 questionnaire, I also proposed a clarification: >>"The character set of a delivery unit should be a subset of Unicode, but >>it is not necessary to use a character set that defines the same mappings >>between characters and codepoints as Unicode." >>Since I missed a large part of the 9 June telecon, I don't know if this >>was discussed. > >I don't think it was discussed. I think the only people who will >understand the clarification are people who understand "character set" and >"codepoints" I'm inclined to think that web developers and people who configure CMSs should at least know what character encoding they are using. If they don't understand "character set" and "codepoints", I doubt that they understand UTF-8 and UTF-16, although this is rather essential when you need Unicode. And if you don't need Unicode, you should know whether you are using (for example) Windows codepage 1252 instead of ISO-8859-1 or EUC-JP instead of SHIFT-JIS. >and therefore, I'm not sure that we need it. Do you feel strongly that we >need the clarification? Maybe we should wait and see if there comments on the definition, before deciding if we need a clarification. Regards, Christophe >Best, >--wendy -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/
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