Re: Registering a charset alias

[Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>]

Agreed, except for encouraging UTF-16, which has caused various
problems, including security issues.

Erik

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Shawn Steele<Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>