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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26693 Larry Masinter <lmm@acm.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lmm@acm.org --- Comment #12 from Larry Masinter <lmm@acm.org> --- This specification, by itself, does nothing to the IANA charset registry, because the IANA charset registry remains, and remains relevant to those trying to understand how charset labels appear and are intended, e.g., in web-based email and instant messaging. So it isn't true that all applications using this specification need not know about or look at the IANA charset registry. The IANA charset registry may remain inaccurate until someone fixes it, but this specification unfortunately does nothing to change its accuracy and very little reduce its relevance. Until there is a replacement for the IANA charset registry that is suitable for use by other (non-web) applications, and suitable for web-based implementations of those applications, the IANA charset registry remains an important (if flawed) source of information for designers and implementors of those applications. By making false statements about how well this draft does something it doesn't really do (obsolete or render the IANA charset registry) the more you negatively affect the incentive to do what is necessary, which is to actually fix the IANA charset registry. Fixing the IAMA charset registry so that it is useful and an acceptable reference for non-web applications may be out of scope or not addressed here, but just say so. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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