- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:17:36 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
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. > > As long as that happens, there's no reason to declare in-band charsets > on any resource. They'll either default to utf-8 or pull the encoding > from the HTML page. I think there is difference between ”not necessary to write non-UTF-8 CSS”, on one side, and ”not having to use the CSS @charset”, on the other side. Namely: If you *do* have a site where the HTML files use a legacy encoding, you could still switch the CSS files to UTF-8 - without simultaneously switching the HTML files to UTF-8, as long as the encoding is declared via @charset rule (or via HTTP). Thus, with regard the situation that Richard described: Richard Ishida, Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:23:56 +0000: > On 24/01/2014 17:06, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > I spoke with someone this week who works for a company where 100s of > developers are still not using UTF-8 due to legacy code and corporate > policy issues. They're working to change that, but it takes a while > to turn the ship around. Then, for such situations, it could perhaps be of help knowing that they could start their switch to UTF-8 by switching the CSS to UTF-8 first and that @charset could be of help for that, since the @charset "UTF-8" would make the CSS work even if the CSS makes use of non-ASCII selectors. HTML(5) permits <meta charset="UTF-8"/> in XHTML, as long as it specifies "UTF-8". And it seems like not recommending @charset in CSS, except when it says "UTF-8", could be a similarly decent rule. -- leif halvard silli
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