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2.1.6 Character encodings http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#character-encodings It would be useful if this section referred to CharMod (www.org/TR/CharMod), since underlying terminology such as "character encoding", "character", "code point", etc. are defined there.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: This section is _defining_ the underlying terminology. If there are any terms used here without being defined either here or by reference to another spec that does define them (e.g. Unicode for the use of the term "Unicode scalar value"), then please list those terms. Regarding the terms mentioned above: The term "character encoding" is not used in this section in a way where its definition matters. The term "character" is defined in this section. The term "code point" is defined in this section.
The I18N WG would like you to reconsider this decision. The problem here might be the wording in the original bug report, when I referred to CharMod "defining" these terms. I agree that this section is doing the defining. However, those definitions are consistent with those in CharMod and, it being CharMod's job to do so, much more deeply explained in that document. In other words, we're suggesting that you add a reference so that it's clear that HTML's definitions are not somehow different from CharMods and so that the truly curious with time on their hands can find/read that material.
If this is just about helping the truly curious find something to read, then it's already listed in the "Suggested Reading" section (as the first entry!): http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#suggested-reading