- From: Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:53:10 +0000
- To: "mathias@qiwi.be" <mathias@qiwi.be>
- CC: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
Hello Mathias,
Recently you file Bug 26655 [0] on the Encoding [1] specification.
The W3C Internationalization WG rejected [2] this comment and the bug is currently marked as RESOLVED WONTFIX. The reason given is that specific evidence is needed that these encoding labels exist in the wild [which is, of course, what your survey seeks to show] with evidence that adding the label(s) in question would not produce errors or incorrect decoding of the pages. Further, there is some feeling that accommodating encoding labelling errors might actually do more harm than having people correct their errors.
Please note that, as was done with Bug 16773 [3] previously, this does not prejudice future label addition requests if you can gather the necessary evidence.
Could you please reply to this email and indicate if you are satisfied by this conclusion?
Thanks (for I18N),
Addison
[0] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26655
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
Editor's copy: http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
[2] http://www.w3.org/International/docs/encoding/encoding-doc.html#issue-26655
[3] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16773
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)
Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.
Received on Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:53:41 UTC