Azeri [Re: LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM]
Francois Yergeau
FYergeau at alis.com
Tue Apr 15 17:15:06 CEST 2003
Martin Duerst wrote:
> At 12:54 03/04/15 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>
> >a standards conformant web page served by HTTP that does not
> >give any character set information is in ISO 8859-1.
> >...
>
> This is not a pessimist's view, it's a realist's view.
> And it is what browsers actually do (if they don't do
> heuristic charset detection).
Seconded, it's just reality and the ISO 8859-1 default has never been
anything but wishful thinking (except when it was the only thing). This
default should be removed from the HTTP spec before it moves to Full
Standard.
--
François
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