- From: (wrong string) çois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:11:14 -0400
- To: <www-amaya@w3.org>
Dave J Woolley wrote: > If the document is actually served as HTML, 8859/1 > is the default, There is no default charset in HTML. From the HTML 4.01 spec [1]: 'Therefore, user agents must not assume any default value for the "charset" parameter.' You must have been thinking of the HTTP default charset. > Amaya is an [X]HTML tool, it should default to 8859/1. Bad idea, Amaya doesn't know if the document will be served by HTTP or otherwise, so it cannot assume this default. It should always add a <meta... charset=> (as well as an XML encoding declaration if XHTML). > Also, in HTML, lang is supposed to be orthogonal, to > encoding, so it can, at best, be used as hint to the > encoding for newly created documents. Right. -- François Yergeau
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