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Bug 9134 - I'm strongly opposed to having "willful violations" of the specs, and of mandating the use of platform-specific Windows encodings in preference to standardised ISO ones, on the grounds of supporting "legacy" content; isn't this supposed to be a new spec f
Summary: I'm strongly opposed to having "willful violations" of the specs, and of mand...
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9127
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: 2010-02-24 02:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-22 10:29 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-24 02:29:22 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#character-encodings-0

Comment:
I'm strongly opposed to having "willful violations" of the specs, and of
mandating the use of platform-specific Windows encodings in preference to
standardised ISO ones, on the grounds of supporting "legacy" content; isn't
this supposed to be a new spec for new HTML 5 documents, with no existing
legacy to support?

Posted from: 66.176.40.52
Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2010-02-24 02:43:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9127 ***