- From: Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:03:40 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hi Leif, You wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr., Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:44:34 -0800: >> Every HTML document should include a <meta charset=utf-8> in its head. >> It's as much a part of a valid document as the doctype, frankly - >> lacking it effectively puts you in "quirky encoding" mode. > > This need to use meta is not reflected in the HTML (5) spec Yes it is. Emphasis mine: > If an HTML document does not start with a BOM, and its encoding is not > explicitly given by Content-Type metadata, and the document is not an > iframe srcdoc document, then the character encoding used must be an > ASCII-compatible character encoding, and *the encoding must be > specified using a meta element* with a charset attribute or a meta > element with an http-equiv attribute in the Encoding declaration > state. See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#charset http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#charset Ted
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