Re: xkcd: LTR

Did you try add the xml:lang="en-Dsrt" pseudo-attribute to the html
element, as suggested by the W3C Unicorn validator ?

http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=www.xn--elqus623b.net%2FXKCD%2F1138.html&ucn_lang=fr&ucn_task=conformance#

May be this could help IE and Firefox that can't figure out the language
used to properly detect the encoding if they still don't trust the XML
declaration in this case, to avoid them to use an encoding "guesser". It is
anyay curious because this site is valid as XHTML 1.1 (not as HTML5 which
uses a very different and simplified prolog, which is not matched here, so
the "legacy" rules should apply to detect XHTML here, then legacy HTML4 if
XHTML is no longer recognized by IE and Firefox). Because XHTML is properly
tagged, the XML requirements should apply and the XML declaration in the
prolog should be used without needing to guess the encoding from the rest
of the content (starting by a meta element in the HTML head element).

2012/11/27 John H. Jenkins <jenkins_at_apple.com>

> That's because the domain does, in fact, use sinograms and not Deseret.
> (It's my Chinese name.)
>
> On 2012年11月26日, at 下午1:54, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> I wonder why this IDN link appears to me using sinograms in its domain
> name, instead of Deseret letters. The link works, but my browser cannot
> display it and its displays the Punycoded name instead without decoding it.
>
> This is strange because I do have Deseret fonts installed and I can
> view "Unicoded" HTML pages containing Deseret letters.
>
>
> 2012/11/26 John H. Jenkins <jenkins_at_apple.com>
>
>> Or, if one prefers:
>>
>> http://www.%e4%ba%95%e4%bd%9c%e6%81%86.net/XKCD/1137.html<http://www.xn--elqus623b.net/XKCD/1137.html>
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>> On 2012年11月21日, at 上午10:22, Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit_at_apple.com> wrote:
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>>
>> http://xkcd.com/1137/
>>
>> Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-)
>>
>> Debbie
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Received on Mon Nov 26 2012 - 19:19:40 CST