- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:03:07 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c i18n ig <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: www html editor <www-html-editor@w3.org>
The following mail has been sent to the www-html-editor list. Comments? Misha > Editors, > > The term "character" looks misused in the following sentence. > > The META declaration must only be used when the character encoding > is organized such that ASCII characters stand for themselves (at > least until the META element is parsed). > > (5.2.2 Specifying the character encoding) > > I believe that the intention of this sentence is that it is okay when > the received *octets* (not characters) stand for ASCII characters. > > The sentence mentioning the same issue in RFC 2070 seems more exact > than HTML 4.0. It says: > > This is not foolproof, but will work if the encoding scheme is such > that ASCII-valued octets stand for ASCII characters only at least > until the META element is parsed. > > So I consider the word "ASCII characters" of the HTML 4.0 spec quoted > above to be replaced with "ASCII-valued octets". > > Regards, > > Yano Keisuke > yano@moon.email.ne.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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