- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:39:11 -0400
- To: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org>, www-validator@w3.org
At 18:50 03/06/07 +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: >Terje Bless <link@pobox.com> wrote in >news:f02000001-1026-364C400E990111D7B1DF0030657B83E8@[193.157.66. >23]: > > > Yes, well, in the interest of full disclosure, let me add that > > another significant factor in the Validator's current > > behaviour is that the HTTP defaulting behaviour is considered > > harmfull to i18n and all those users for whom iso-8859-1 is > > insufficient. That was a factor when creating HTML 4, not really for the validator, which just follows HTML 4 in that respect (and the relevant RFC for XML, which also contradicts HTTP). >Well, even if those users have no control over their servers, >there are no problems, neither in theory nor in practice, to use >characters not in ISO-8859-1. They could always use numeric >character references (which work better anyway). Would you ever want to try to edit a Japanese Web page with numeric character references? Why would they work better in such a case? Regards, Martin.
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