Re: [css-syntax] ISSUE-329: @charset has no effect on stylesheet??

On 07/01/2014 23:31, Simon Sapin wrote:
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/329
>> @charset has no effect on stylesheet??
>
> I rephrased the note to clarify that the parse @charset at-rule that
> shows up in CSSOM and the @charset byte sequence that provides a hint
> for the stylesheets’s encoding are not the same thing.
>
> Only the former "has no effect on stylesheets".

It's a little clearer what you meant now, but it still seems rather odd.

I don't think it's true that "The @charset rule has no effect on a 
stylesheet.", otherwise why would you use it at all, and how would you 
detect the fallback encoding?

I think it's better to say that the @charset rule has no effect on a 
stylesheet *if* it is preceded by a byte-order mark *or* if the 
stringent rules about its appearance and position in the file are not 
followed (which iirc is about what we used to say).

RI