- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 21:41:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: "'gerald et al.'" <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > On 08.05.01 at 18:07, Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu> wrote: > > >>I don't really see why the WCAG would say that [not to use Windows-1252] > >>as use of native charsets for the authoring or hosting platform are the > >>expected mode of operation. > > > >I don't think it violates the letter of any of the checkpoints, but it > >seems to go against the ideas of graceful transformation and platform > >nondependance, which underpin much of WCAG. > > Hmmm. Maybe Björn or Sean can clarify a bit, but I don't really see any big > problems provided the charset used is duly registered with IANA and marked > as suitable for use as a MIME encoding. The user agent may not support the encoding, as is commonly the case with windows-1252 on platforms other than Windows and Mac. -- Liam Quinn
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