On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> wrote: > Such evangelism is a different issue. If you want to nag “you should use > UTF-8”, as a warning, each and every time when someones declares any other > encoding, you will confuse or irritate many people and will reduce the > popularity of validators. But in any case, it is quite distinct from the > issue of declaring the iso-8859-1 encoding as an error.
Given that the validator is used primarily for new content, I doubt that very much. And most new content is utf-8 already. As for how it's related, http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/ takes the stance currently that all non-utf-8 encodings are simply non-conforming, as there's too much room for error when using them. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
