- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:03:12 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote: >I was quite surprised to see that the main validator page (and probably >others) are still iso-8859-1 (see e.g. >http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/view.cgi?url=http%3A%2F% >2Fvalidator. w3.org%2F). This leads to problems when validating IRIs >and, once we support that, IDNs. > >All validator output is UTF-8, and there is no reason to have the input >be something else. Well, that's a good point; but the main reason the pages are still iso-8859-1 is that older browsers had trouble with UTF-8. This was also the reason for nuking some "fancy quotes" scattered around the site. What I've been thinking is that 0.6.x should keep compatibility with these browsers -- which is Netscape 3.x, _not_ 4.x, BTW :-) -- and then revisit the issue for 0.7. Most likely -- unless I'm persuaded otherwise again -- 0.7 will be all UTF-8 and freely making use of "Unicode" features (such as the mentioned typographical quote marks). Part of the reason for this is that around 0.7 we need to take a long hard look at what backwards compatibility we want to invest resources in supporting; as well as what width of platforms to support. e.g. how old "standard" linux distros do we want to support, and whether or not we want to support Win32; in which case we need to actually resolve all the issues with that platform. Win32 in particular is difficult since we don't have a working SGML/XML Parser on that platform. Björn has made quite a bit of progress on that, but I don't know how much time/opportunity he has to keep working at it (and it's a bear of task too). ( BTW, Björn, I can probably arrange for access to a Win32 box with the Visual Foo tools for you if that would help. ) - -- Ladies and gentlemen, you must resist those all-too-human feelings and decide this case on the evidence. And the evidence plainly shows that Mr. Landa's injuries, disfiguring as they are, are nowhere near as important to a free society as the fundamental right to make smart-ass remarks. -- Katie @ AtAT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.2 iQA/AwUBPwXPb6PyPrIkdfXsEQIXwQCaA7e5raaXAl5yT/688Vbcd2TPWGYAoICt ddaM3yM7PY30zlRDDwNb1UGW =/LI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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