- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:15:23 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:02:42 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > 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... As far as I can tell, WebKit ignores charset in the presence of a BOM, both for HTML and for CSS. IE9 treats them differently (seems to honor the charset for CSS). -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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