- From: Nikita The Spider <nikitathespider@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:01:15 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On 3/26/07, Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote: > > Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > > Anyway, "cp1252" and "cp-1252" are widely used synonyms for > > "windows-1252", so perhaps the validator should recognize > > them, even though they are unregistered. > > After a long discussion on the "charset registry review" list > in 2006, with compelling interoperability (IIRC) reasons that > these names should not be registered as synonyms. I think Frank is referring to this thread: http://mail.apps.ietf.org/ietf/charsets/threads.html#01658 Interestingly, it is reported there that MSIE doesn't recognize the encoding "cp1252". Thanks for the tip, Frank. -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more
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