- 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.
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François Yergeau
Received on Wednesday, 23 August 2000 15:14:13 UTC