ISSUE-76: Clarify 'preferred name' for encodings

Clarify 'preferred name' for encodings

State:

CLOSED

Product:

html5-markup

Raised by:

Richard Ishida

Opened on:

2011-07-22

Description:

4.2. Character encoding declaration
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#character-encoding

"The value must be a valid character encoding name, and must be the preferred name for that encoding, as specified in the IANA [Character Sets] registry."

It would be good to have a link on 'preferred name' to make it clear that this includes the encoding name if there is no preferred name. See:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/infrastructure.html#preferred-mime-name
"The preferred MIME name of a character encoding is the name or alias labeled as "preferred MIME name" in the IANA Character Sets registry, if there is one, or the encoding's name, if none of the aliases are so labeled."

Otherwise it is misleading. (To be honest, it's still not overly clear. Much as new jargon is best avoided, this may be a case where we need a slightly different term, such as 'html-preferred'.)

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1. Review of tracker issues for best practices (part II) (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-03-28)
2. [Bug 13395] i18n-ISSUE-76: Clarify 'preferred name' for encodings (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2012-10-06)
3. [Bug 13395] New: i18n-ISSUE-76: Clarify 'preferred name' for encodings (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-07-27)
4. [minutes] Internationalization WG telecon 2011-07-27 (from ishida@w3.org on 2011-07-27)
5. I18N-ISSUE-76: Clarify 'preferred name' for encodings [HTML5-markup-prep] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-07-22)

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