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In <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/parsing.html#determining-the-character-encoding>, it says: """ Note: This algorithm is a willful violation of the HTTP specification, which requires that the encoding be assumed to be ISO-8859-1 in the absence of a character encoding declaration to the contrary, and of RFC 2046, which requires that the encoding be assumed to be US-ASCII in the absence of a character encoding declaration to the contrary. This specification's third approach is motivated by a desire to be maximally compatible with legacy content. [HTTP] [RFC2046] """ It would be more helpful to say that it's a willful violation of RFC2616, but HTTPbis is changing HTTP to allow this.
mass-moved component to LC1
Do you have a link to the new requirements? I'm happy to remove the note and just reference the new HTTP spec if it's indeed fixing this.
See: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/20 and: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/20/i20.2.diff The default encoding in RFC2046 is a known issue, and will be addressed by: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-melnikov-mime-default-charset ...which is becoming a work item of the APPSAWG: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/81/minutes/appsawg.txt
Ok, I'll comment out the paragraph.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6575. Check-in comment: Comment out a 'willful violation' that is being fixed in the underlying specs. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6574&to=6575