RE: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)

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

Shouldn't the W3C be pointing to the charset registry then?  Also is this doc on some sort of standards track?

FWIW: It'd be nice if like in section 0 it said "Encodings are scary, use UTF-8 because the rest are implemented inconsistently across platforms".

-Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Ewell [mailto:doug@ewellic.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:21 AM
To: Shawn Steele; Anne van Kesteren; ietf-charsets
Subject: RE: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)

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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