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Re: Registering a charset alias

To: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Registering a charset alias
From: Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:56:50 -0700
Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ira McDonald<blueroofmusic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does HTML5 *really* make such an unwise suggestion about
> treating US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252?

If HTML were a brand new spec, I would agree, but since HTML has been
around for a long time and all the major implementations use the
supersets mentioned earlier, it would actually be unwise to refrain
from documenting it.

Erik

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