- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:46:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote: > > In 4.4 "CSS style sheet representation", the user agent is required to > observe the charset of referring stylesheet or document (if any) for > determining the charset of CSS stylesheets. (The fourth item in the > list) > > I think that this should be removed for two reasons. First, this is > ad-hoc. It's also what every major UA implements, and is required in order to correctly render most of the east-asian Web. > Second, some HTML documents are created from XML by XSLT on the client > side. Although such HTML documents may be in UTF-16, they have nothing > to do with the encoding of referenced CSS stylesheets. There are of course many cases where the heuristic in question can be shown to fail, but since this is the last-ditch measure, it shouldn't be a problem. It can be avoided by correctly labelling the stylesheet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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