- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:55:48 +0100
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Sebastian Redl wrote: > Non-ASCII bytes may appear in the stream prior to the meta > (I was wrong here. A sensible implementation would be to > store them for later translation), but ASCII bytes must > have the ASCII meaning. This is what the phrasing of the > text means. The part in the parentheses is about shift > encodings such as Shift-JIS, which may, in the initial > shift state, have ASCII mapping for ASCII bytes, but > after a shift character, have a different mapping. > The phrase in the parentheses permits such encodings, > but no shift may come before the meta. Right. The concept of Shift-JIS was not previously understood by me. Now that you have explained it, I can see that your interpretation is better than mine. Philip Taylor
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