RE: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)

[Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>]

Shawn Steele <Shawn dot Steele at microsoft dot com> wrote:

> I'm a little confused about what the purpose of the document is?

I assume it was intended to document the encodings deemed permissible in
HTML5, which I guess is supposed to be synonymous with "the web
platform."

I was surprised by some of the choices of "permissible," such as
including ibm864 and ibm866 but none of the other, much more widespread,
legacy OEM code pages. I was also puzzled by the reference to utf-16 and
utf-16be as "legacy" encodings.

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