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Bug 16973 - i18n-ISSUE-108: encoding -> character encoding
Summary: i18n-ISSUE-108: encoding -> character encoding
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-05-07 17:47 UTC by Addison Phillips
Modified: 2013-04-25 01:53 UTC (History)
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Description Addison Phillips 2012-05-07 17:47:12 UTC 
2.7.4 Extracting encodings from meta elements
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/fetching-resources.html#extracting-encodings-from-meta-elements

This section should probably be titles "Extracting character encodings from meta elements" (and ditto in the text). The word "encoding" by itself could mean other things, such as transfer encoding.
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:08:06 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17862 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-14 12:36:45 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/87fc9c5aaf348eb0f1ce7bb97307b2057694f94b
Rationale: accepted WHATWG change