Re: cp1252 decoder implementation

Hi

On 21 November 2012 16:42, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> But may be we could ask to Microsoft to map officially C1 controls on the
> remaining holes of windows-1252, to help improve the interoperability in
> HTML5 with a predictable and stable behavior across HTML5 applications. In
> that case the W3C needs not doing anything else and there's no need to
> update the IANA registry.
>
>
Not sure what the purpose or need for this would be, let alone the need for
it. Seems to be a vision of an ideal world that does not exist.

If such remapping occurred then some legacy content would be potentially
broken.

Many languages, and many character encodings did not go through a formal
standardization or registration. Thus not officially supported, and most of
the time worked by 1) declaring themselves as iso-8859-1 or windows-1252
and 2) specifying specific fonts.

Web browsers support a small limited number of character encodings, and
redefining and changing how key character encodings work will have
implications for legacy data and for languages currently unsupported by
Unicode or languages with limited practical support from vendors.

Ok, not many but there are a few still out there, and i still do come
across content being created in legacy encodings.

Andrew

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Received on Wed Nov 21 2012 - 01:26:01 CST