[Bug 26685] New: Mention actual goal (UTF-8) in preface

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26685

            Bug ID: 26685
           Summary: Mention actual goal (UTF-8) in preface
           Product: WHATWG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Encoding
          Assignee: annevk@annevk.nl
          Reporter: ishida@w3.org
        QA Contact: sideshowbarker+encodingspec@gmail.com
                CC: mike@w3.org, www-international@w3.org

During the i18n telecon it was suggested that, in addition to the current text,
the Preface probably ought to mention upfront that the key goal of the Encoding
spec is for authors and new protocols and formats etc to use the utf-8 encoding
and use the ASCII case-insensitive "utf-8" label to identify it, and that the
other encodings are described in the spec in order to establish
interoperability in legacy contexts in the Open Web where use of UTF-8 is not
feasible.

I was actioned to ask whether it would be possible to add an initial paragraph
to say something along those lines?

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Received on Thursday, 28 August 2014 11:02:21 UTC