Re: Comments on Charmod PR publications

Hello Bjoern,

Many thanks for your proposals. Unfortunately, at least I personally
disagree with your text proposals, in particular with the idea to
remove any mention of iso-8859-1.

It is just the mention of iso-8859-1 that is crucial in this context,
as it was most often misused. People put up a page in an arbitrary
8-bit encoding, labeled it as iso-8859-1, and constructed a font that
made things look right. So using iso-8859-1 was explicitly part of
the misuse, and trying to avoid mentioning it just obscures the issue.

If you have any ideas of how to express things with mentioning
iso-8859-1 (and again, not being overly complicated), that would
be appreciated.

Regards,    Martin.

At 22:18 05/02/08, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
 >* Martin Duerst wrote:
 >>It may "seem to imply" that iso-8859-1 is a coded character set, but
 >>it doesn't actually say so. If you have a proposal of how to change
 >>the text to avoid such an implication without making this more
 >>complicated for the average reader, I think the WG might be inclined
 >>to put it in. For example, what about
 >
 >I think any text that does not refer to something that can be confused
 >with a character encoding scheme would be better, for example, changing
 >
 >  C076 [C] Content MUST NOT use a code point for any purpose
 >  other than that defined by its coded character set.
 >
 >  This prohibits the construction of fonts that misuse e.g.
 >  iso-8859-1 to represent different scripts, characters, or
 >  symbols than what is actually encoded in iso-8859-1.
 >
 >to
 >
 >  ...
 >
 >  This prohibits the construction of fonts that misuse e.g.
 >  code points in the Basic Latin or Latin-1 Supplement range
 >  (U+0000-U+007F and U+0080-U+00FF) to represent different
 >  scripts, characters, or symbols than what is actually
 >  representable using these code points.
 >
 >would satisfy me. It could also be changed to
 >
 >  This prohibits the construction of content that misuses code
 >  points in e.g. the Basic Latin Unicode range (U+0000-U+007F)
 >  to represent different scripts, characters, or symbols than
 >  what is actually representable using these code points by
 >  depending on a specific incorrectly constructed font.
 >
 >or something else as long as the "ISO-8859-1" bit is removed.
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