- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:06:36 +0900
- To: Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>
- CC: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org
Hello Andrew, On 2014/01/25 6:23, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > Hì Richard, > > Most of the cases of contemporary uses of legacy encodings I know of Can you give examples? > involve encodings not registered with IANA. It's not really difficult to register an encoding if it exists and is reasonably documented. Please give it a try or encourage others to give it a try. > Historical solutions are to just identify these encodings as iso-859-1 / > windows-1252 I hope that's iso-8859-1, not iso-859-1, even if that's still a blatant lie. Regards, Martin. > The tend to all be non-ASCII compatible encodings. > > Andrew > On 25/01/2014 12:57 AM, "Richard Ishida"<ishida@w3.org> wrote: > >> Anne, Joshua, >> >> I'm in the process of rewriting an article about character encodings and >> CSS. The current version of the article says that, if you for some reason >> don't use UTF-8 and need to use @charset, you should refer to the IANA list >> of encodings and choose the preferred label for the encoding you need. >> >> (I know, I know... people would be better off using UTF-8, and will >> certainly recommend that, but we also want to document what to do in >> situations where you have to deal with legacy encodings.) >> >> I'm thinking that we should be pointing them to the Encoding spec, rather >> than the IANA list. >> >> We could point at http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-encoding-get, >> although there are two issues with that: >> >> 1. that table isn't really intended to provide a list of labels people >> should use, it maps labels to encodings >> >> 2. the most commonly used label for an encoding, where there are more than >> one per encoding, is generally not at the top of the list (although it is >> used for the name of the encoding). >> >> Questions: >> >> Do you agree that it would be useful to be able to point people to a list >> of encoding labels that they should use for legacy or special situations? >> >> Should that list be in the Encoding spec? >> >> Should we make a separate list, or can we adapt/annotate the list at >> http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-encoding-get to serve that >> purpose? >> >> RI >> >> >
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