- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:11:08 -0500
- To: www-style Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
Tex Texin wrote: > No, the style sheet is defined in terms of unicode characters, but the encoding can > be anything and parsing can be in the native encoding as long as it is equivalent to > Unicode. This last part is sort of key. > If in the case of an unrecognized encoding, the parser presumed utf-8 and > looked for the usual boundary markers (@, ;, etc.) for many sheets it would do an > adequate job of parsing. Yes, but is that desirable? That would get flat-wrong results for any non-ascii-compatible encoding out there, for example... of which there are plenty. -Boris
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