- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:38:01 +0000
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On 19 Mar 2009, at 20:30, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > An editorial concern: step 3 in section 3 says [1]: > > * If encoding is UTF-16, then change it to UTF-8. > > I think this reads two ways: > > 1. Go and convert the Web address > string to UTF-8, then proceed > 2. Don't touch the string, but for > purposes of the remaining steps, > assume that "encoding" is > set to UTF-8. > > Whichever it is, I recommend that it be stated more clearly. Thank > you. I raised this previously (while that prose was in HTML 5): it should be two. Something like the following would be better, "If encoding is UTF-16, then change encoding to UTF-8, leaving w intact." -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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