RE: [Encoding] false statement [I18N-ACTION-328][I18N-ISSUE-374]

On 29/08/2014 6:22 AM, "Larry Masinter" <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
>

>
> Sometimes you have to do more work than you want to,
> In order to make things right. But I'm not sure it's  really
> all that much.  Maybe all that's needed is a pointer from
> the IANA registry to this document and vice versa, telling
> readers to be aware of the other, and encouraging new
> applications to use utf-8.

But that boat has already sailed.

UTF-8 content isn't always Unicode. So a requirement that you must (rather
than should) use UTF-8 doesn't solve the problems you suggest the encoding
spec fixes.

Andrew

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:04:25 UTC