According to the spec, Imports are supposed to default to UTF-8: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21275
Currently the native implementation in Chrome does not force UTF-8: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336698 On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jan Miksovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > To what extent do individual imported HTML files need to specify a charset > (e.g., <meta charset="utf-8")? > > I have an app that imports a separate .html file defining a Polymer > element, and the imported file includes a Unicode glyph. The main HTML file > defines a charset, but the included HTML file does not. I'm pretty sure > this used to work fine, but now I see the element's glyph rendered as > garbage characters. This happens under both current Canary and current > production Chrome. > > Including an explicit meta charset element in the included element file > fixes the problem, so I can work around the problem. But I'm wondering if > there'd been some larger philosophical shift or statement made about > charsets in imported HTML files. Are elements supposed to implicitly pick > up the charset of the importing page, or should every HTML file — including > those for elements — always specify a charset? > > If this is a bug, I'm happy to file one. (I'd only held back because I > can't do this as a simple jsbin.) > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Polymer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/8cb9e840-7e71-4c10-8826-f16dcafe28a1%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/CAAUAVAhe2uvCQYuoAyg%3D1K4jT_ADPjTcV7fFMGiFdqGExC2h%2BA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
