Re: Registering a charset alias

[Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:45:13 +0200, Martin J. Dürst  
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> That's fine. I think the rule should be:
> 1) If the Name or an Alias is labeled as "(preferred MIME name)", then  
> use that.
> 2) Else, use the name.
>
> Anne (or somebody else), can you make sure that gets into the authors  
> section of HTML5?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7453

HTML5 was already pretty close to that. It might actually make sense that  
the registry itself says that the preferred MIME name is the name of the  
encoding if an explicit preferred MIME name is not specified. That would  
make things easier for external documents.

(HTML5 also encourages authors to use UTF-8, allows conformance checkers  
to warn against "legacy" encodings, and has a SHOULD-level requirement  
that tools use UTF-8 for new documents. I believe this was not entirely  
clear before so I'm stating it here just in case.)


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Anne van Kesteren
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