- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:10:16 +0300
- To: W3C Validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>
On Apr 24, 2008, at 02:21 , Karl Dubost wrote: > There are discussions going on > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-latest.html#canonicalization.and.text.defaults More precisely for text/html: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#determining Step 7. defines Windows-1252 as the general default which can be different in non-Western browser installations. Global online apps like validators should probably stick to Windows-1252. (The mention of UTF-8 there is a token gesture; the Web is a legacy system, so UTF-8 for non-legacy does not apply.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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