Re: HTML5 and Unicode Normalization Form C

On Fri, 27 May 2011, Michael[tm] Smith wrote:

>> Is Unicode Normalization Form C actually required by HTML5
>> or is this a validator bug?
>
> it's intentional behavior in the validator, and it's an attempt
> to provide you with information about what could be seen as a
> potential portability problem in your document.

None of your business!

And it is even wrong because Unicode NFC will cause problems even
on Windows XP as shown by
 http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/yerushalayim.html

The HTML5 validator does not complain about charset=ISO-8859-15.
Are you going to tell us that ISO-8859-15 is "better" than
non-NFC Unicode?

> you can ignore the error

You confessed that there is no error.

Received on Friday, 27 May 2011 14:35:36 UTC