I18N-ISSUE-60: Omit the either/or list [Polyglot]

I18N-ISSUE-60: Omit the either/or list [Polyglot]

http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/60

Raised by: Richard Ishida
On product: Polyglot

3. Character Encoding
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#character-encoding

WG Approved: Yes


" In short, for correct character encoding, polyglot markup must either: "

The MUST is too strong. There is no problem with using more than one declaration, and in an earlier comment we said that we recommend that you have a readable declaration in the source in addition to a UTF8/16 encoding.

I think it is better just to omit the list and it's lead-in paragraph "In short, for correct ...".

The information is contained in the following paragraph that starts with "If polyglot markup uses an encoding other than..."

Please add comments to bugzilla:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10151


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Received on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:20:07 UTC