Re: [Encoding] false statement

There is a wider issue of legacy encodings still in use on the web that are
not covered by this document.

On 30 June 2014 14:27, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:

>  "Historically encodings and their specifications (if any) were kept
> track of by the IANA Character Sets registry. This specification renders
> that registry obsolete."
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> This specification does not, by itself, cause any changes to the IANA
> Character Sets registry at all, much less render it obsolete.
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> I don’t think the document should be published without documenting the
> interoperability issues between web applications that follow this spec and
> non-web applications that don’t.
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> Larry
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> http://larry.masinter.net
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Received on Monday, 30 June 2014 05:23:11 UTC