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This is an update, in a temporary location, of the tutorial Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS. (Please be careful about bookmarking the location, since it is only temporary.)

A lot of new material was added, eg. related to the UTF-8 BOM, normalization, etc., and the material was rearranged significantly. The rearrangement was to downplay slightly the XHTML 1.0 issues, given that that is now only relevant to IE6, but also to help readers more quickly find information they need for the format they are dealing with.

The explicit distinction between XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 with regard to MIME types was removed, since the XHTML2 WG is hopefully very close to issuing a PER that enables XHTML 1.1 to be served as text/html.

The update adds information about HTML5.

Where a section corresponds to an article that has been updated, those updates were also migrated to this document.

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• Discussed border-radius color transition issue. Seem to have (tentative) consensus that the gradient be recommended as currently, but that the location of the color stops also be defined.

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• CSS2.1 Test Suite Alpha 1 being published today.
• Resolved: Move forward with joint CSS/SVG Task Force: arrange joint afternoon meeting at next F2F if possible, set up telecons, work on charter, etc.
• Resolved: Move August F2F to 23-25.
• Discussed px vs. pt thread. Proposal is to fix 96px per inch. Whether inches fixed to reality or pixels fixed to screen res / viewing distance may vary (print would match real inches, screens align with viewing distance and/or screen res).

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Stefan Schumacher has published a German translation of the RDFa Primer.

W3C launched today the RDFa Working Group, whose mission is to support the use of RDFa, a format for embedding structured data in Web documents. The Working Group's goals include making it easier to author RDFa, promoting continued adoption of the technology in HTML, XHTML, and XML, and helping developers create RDFa applications. The group is chartered to extend and enhance RDFa 1.0, including the specification of an API. The Working Group will also support the HTML Working Group in its work on incorporating RDFa in HTML5 and XHTML5 (as a followup on the the currently published Working Draft for RDFa 1.0 in HTML5).