Re: Latin-1 not in utf-8 processing? from David Dorward on 2013-03-04 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2013)

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:47:22 +0000
To: Naena Guru <naenaguru@gmail.com>
Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-Id: <783B5738-3840-4AB9-BFA4-C152A5848688@dorward.me.uk>

On 3 Mar 2013, at 06:08, Naena Guru <naenaguru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone explain why ASCII and ISO-8859-1 characters are treated differently under UTF-8 charset declaration?

ASCII characters are not treated differently (since ASCII is, AFAIK, a subset of both ISO-8859-* and UTF-8).

ISO-8859-1 characters are treated differently because ISO-8859-1 isn't UTF-8. 

Declaring that a document is encoded using UTF-8 while you really encode it as ISO-8859-1 is counter-productive.

Received on Monday, 4 March 2013 14:47:53 UTC