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Re: [CSS21] BOM vs HTTP charset

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:02:42 -0500
Message-ID: <4F2FDD82.4010508@mit.edu>
To: www-style@w3.org 
On 2/6/12 8:43 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug wrote:
> According to a bug on the HTML5 spec, there are Web compatibility issues
> with the current encoding sniffing algorithm (where the HTTP charset
> parameter overrides a BOM).
>
> To maintain consistency, the CSS spec would need to change too.

What do current CSS implementations do?  It may well be that there are 
web compat issues with having the same behavior in HTML and CSS here...

-Boris
Received on Monday, 6 February 2012 14:22:23 UTC

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