[Bug 23646] "us-ascii" should not be an alias for "windows-1252"

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23646

--- Comment #15 from Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> ---
(In reply to Anne from comment #12)
> And given that this cannot be changed for HTML and having different encoding

Is there any real reason why *encoding* when "us-ascii" is used for HTML can't
be changed?

> given that everyone ought to use utf-8

It's usually when you are using non-HTML/XML content that you need to use
non-UTF encodings and then you must be much more picky about how encoders work.
So if spec should be bended some way then to cater for such cases.

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Received on Saturday, 28 June 2014 11:09:13 UTC