RE: Registering a charset alias

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>]

I would still hope that newer HTMLs really encourages UTF8 or UTF16 and mention the others should be used only if really necessary.

And it might help to explain why some charsets don't work perfectly between systems (like iso8859-1/windows-1252 or others).

-Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik van der Poel [mailto:erikv@google.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 13,  2009 18:57
To: Ira McDonald
Cc: Anne van Kesteren; ietf-charsets@iana.org
Subject: Re: Registering a charset alias

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