Re: [css-text] Control characters

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 6:07 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> On 03/20/2014 02:11 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> For compatibility with legacy content naively converted to UTF-n,
>> U+0085 (and, indeed, the entire C1 controls block) need to be
>> interpreted as graphic characters per Windows-1252, instead of as
>> control characters.
>
> Should this be handled at the render layer or at the encoding layer?

I believe HTML5 does this at the encoding layer, so we should do the
same.  (Also, as far as I know, all characters encoded by Windows-1252
but not ISO-8859-1 do have Unicode equivalents.)

zw

Received on Saturday, 10 May 2014 22:17:23 UTC