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- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:21:54 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23646 --- Comment #23 from Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> --- It was never common practice to use charset="us-ascii" when the text was actually Latin-1 or some other extension to ASCII. The default was Latin-1, and some validators would recommend charset="us-ascii" when the text was limited to characters in the range 00-7F. So the longstanding meaning of charset="us-ascii" was "This document is not using any characters outside the ASCII range, and I've checked it and that's what I want". Again, I'm not asking that the standard be *changed*, only that this issue be *explained*. Currently this stuff is entirely a mystery to a non-expert (and it appears, even to some experts). That's not right. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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