Hello Leif,
I think that more and more, we are on the wrong mailing list.
Regards, Martin.
On 2012/07/18 18:47, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> "Martin J. Dürst", Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:20:31 +0900:
>> On 2012/07/18 16:35, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>> "Martin J. Dürst", Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0900:
>>
>>>> The best reason is simply that nobody should be using
>>>> crutches as long as they can walk with their own legs.
>>>
>>> Crutches, in that sense, is only about authoring convenience.
>>> […] Nevertheless: I, as Web author, would perhaps skip that
>>> convenience if I knew that doing so could improve e.g. HTML5
>>> browser's ability to sniff the encoding correctly […]
>>
>> I'm not sure there are many people for whom using named character
>> entities or numeric character references is a convenience. But for
>> those for whom it is a convenience, let them use it.
>
> By all means: Let them.
>
> But the W3C's I18N working group still gives out advice about when to
> (not) use escapes.[1] Advice which the homepage of W3.org breaks -
> since every non-ASCII character of http://www.w3.org is escaped.
>
> What the I18N group says in that document, is a bit moralistic (along
> the lines 'please think about how difficult it is for non-English
> authors to read escapes for all their characters). It seems to me that
> a mention of real effects on browser behavior could be a better form of
> advice. Especially when coupled with advice about avoiding the BOM.[2]
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html#escapes
> [2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-byte-order-mark#bomhow
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