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Bug 7752 - Please use "URL character encoding" instead of just "character encoding" for clarity
Summary: Please use "URL character encoding" instead of just "character encoding" for ...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-09-29 12:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-29 12:59:12 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#creating-scripts

Comment:
Please use "URL character encoding" instead of just "character encoding" for clarity

Posted from: 213.236.208.22
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2009-10-01 14:28:44 UTC 
I don't see this being fixed in the spec?

The relevant paragraph is

"When the specification says that a script is to be created, given some script source, its scripting language, a global object, a browsing context, a character encoding, and a base URL, the user agent must run the following steps:"

...and then all instances that point to "creating a script" (including in Web Workers) should say "URL character encoding" instead of "character encoding".

(I'm fine with having this bug fixed LATER than LC.)
Comment 2 Anne 2009-10-01 18:41:32 UTC 
There was a change regarding this, but not the one you were looking for: http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4058&to=4059
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-10-18 10:24:47 UTC 
Oops, didn't realise how many fixes this needed. Sorry about that.
Comment 4 contributor 2009-10-18 10:37:20 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4166.
Check-in comment: call the script's character encoding the URL character encoding.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4165&to=4166