2011-12-06 22:58, Leif Halvard Silli write:
There is now a bug, and the editor says the outcome depends on "a
browser vendor to ship it":
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15076
Jukka K. Korpela Tue Dec 6 00:39:45 PST 2011
what is this proposed change to defaults supposed to achieve. […]
I'd say the same as in XML: UTF-8 as a reliable, common default.
The "bug" was created so that the argument given was:
"It would be nice to minimize number of declarations a page needs to
include."
That is, author convenience - so that authors could work sloppily and
produce documents that could fail on user agents that haven't
implemented this change.
This sounds more absurd than I can describe.
XML was created as a new data format; it was an entirely different issue.
If there's something that should be added to or modified in the
algorithm for determining character encoding, the I'd say it's error
processing. I mean user agent behavior when it detects, [...]
There is already an (optional) detection step in the algorithm - but UA
treat that step differently, it seems.
I'm afraid I can't find it - I mean the treatment of a document for
which some encoding has been deduced (say, directly from HTTP headers)
and which then turns out to violate the rules of the encoding.
Yucca
