On 2012/11/21 16:23, Peter Krefting wrote:
Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org:
Somewhat off-topic, I find it amusing that tolerance of poorly
encoded input is considered justification for changing the underlying
standards,
The encoding work at W3C, at least as far as I see it, is not an attempt
to
I’ll be more definitive than Murray ☺ Our legacy code pages aren’t going to
change. We won’t add more characters to 1252. We won’t add new code pages.
We aren’t going change names (since that’ll break anyone already using them),
we probably won’t recognize new names (since anyone trying to
http://xkcd.com/1137/
Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-)
Debbie
Deborah Goldsmith goldsmit at apple dot com wrote:
http://xkcd.com/1137/
Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-)
The current thread about ISO 8859-1 and CP1252 calls to mind this one:
http://xkcd.com/927/
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote:
But may be we could ask to Microsoft to map officially C1 controls on
the remaining holes of windows-1252, to help improve the
interoperability in HTML5 with a predictable and stable behavior
across HTML5 applications. In that case
Peter Krefting peter at opera dot com wrote:
Somewhat off-topic, I find it amusing that tolerance of poorly
encoded input is considered justification for changing the
underlying standards, when Internet Explorer has been flamed for
years and years for tolerating bad input.
It's called
May be you've forgotten FrontPage, a product acquired by Microsoft and then
developped by Microsoft and widely promoted as part of Office, that
insisted in declaring webpages as ISO 8859-1 even if they contained
characters that are only in windows-1252. Even if we edited the page
externally to
(2012/11/22 1:58), Shawn Steele wrote:
We aren’t going change names (since that’ll break
anyone already using them), we probably won’t recognize new names (since
anyone trying to use a new name wouldn’t work on millions of existing
computers, so no one would add it).
Hey, why Microsoft changed
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote:
May be you've forgotten FrontPage, a product acquired by Microsoft and
then developped by Microsoft and widely promoted as part of Office,
that insisted in declaring webpages as ISO 8859-1 even if they
contained characters that are
9 matches
Mail list logo
