Hi Jo,
Sorry for the delay in replying to this. Please note that comments on
XHTML Basic working drafts should be sent to [email protected], to
ensure that they are correctly tracked. (I have added it as a CC to this
reply).
On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:21:21 +0100, Jo Rabin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
4. Character Encoding Declaration
We would appreciate clarification of how to determine the declared
character
encoding of an XHTML Basic 1.1 document.
I would like to draw your attention to a document that summarises this
admirably:
XHTML Media Types
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
and in particular the section
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#text-html
I think this should answer your quesstions, but if it doesn't, please
don't hesitate to ask.
Best wishes,
Steven Pemberton
There seem to be a number of alternatives and the possibility of
contradiction between them.
In particular, our understanding is that documents delivered with a
content
type header of text/*, without stating a character encoding, default to
iso-8859-1. This is in contradiction, however, to section 5.2.2 of HTML
4.01
[6] which states that the default should be disregarded in this case and
that a meta http-equiv construct should used instead.
There is the further possibility that this will be contradicted by the
presence of a Byte Order Mark and/or by the presence of an XML
declaration
with or without an encoding attribute.
We do feel that this situation needs clarification, and we would prefer
if
the means of determining character encoding were to be spelled out.
mobileOK
tests need to determine what the character encoding is, and we feel it
important that implementations of mobileOK tests are consistent in
determining character encoding.
[1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/2006/ED-xhtml-basic-20061101/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/Drafts/mobileOK-Tests/
[4] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/2006/ED-xhtml-basic-20061101/s2.1
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2
