- From: Jungshik Shin <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:35:48 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
Jungshik Shin wrote: >> * Tex Texin wrote: >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2 >>> >>> "The META declaration must only be used when the character encoding is >>> organized such that ASCII-valued bytes stand for ASCII characters (at >>> least >>> until the META element is parsed). META declarations should appear as >>> early as >>> possible in the HEAD element." > 'At least until ....' phrase can be interpreted to mean the following, > too (which is similar to what Tex wrote in his first message in this > thread) A document can be in two encodings, the first of which is ASCII > and used until 'meta charset' declaration appears. After declaring > charset to be UTF-16LE(EBCDIC, or whatever), it can be in UTF-16LE. This > is rather 'crazy', but it seems like that's a possible scenario. Well, > I'm being lazy here... I should go and find out in what context the > above paragraph was written. Martin did my homework and made it clear that there isn't a 'hole' in HTML4 which could be used to come up with my 'crazy' interpretation. Jungshik
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