- From: Wendy Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:02:17 -0400
- To: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hello Christophe, >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.) The spaces don't appear in the draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#textdef "A sequence of characters. Characters are those included in the Unicode/ISO/IEC 106464 repertoire." >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. I can buy that, although I am concerned about confusing less technical readers. >>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. ok. --w
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