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- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:02:50 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-371: Choice of encoding details [encoding] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/371 Raised by: Addison Phillips On product: encoding http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2014JulSep/0026.html Comment from Martin Duerst: This is a Last Call comment on http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-encoding-20140603/. Extensive tests conducted by a student of mine have shown that for single-byte encodings, Opera <=12 (i.e. Presto rendering engine) is the most conformant, often perfect, while other rendering engines have more errors. As an example, for "windows-874", Presto is perfectly conforming, while Firefox shows 23 errors, and IE, Chrome, Safari, and Opera >=16 show exactly the same 8 errors. If the goal of this spec, as I understand, is to help browsers transition to uniform treatment of encodings, and if this allegedly can be best achieved by considering browser market share, then some of the encoding definitions should be carefully revisited. When it comes to passing CR, does the WG intend to count the old Opera browser? I don't think this would be appropriate, because this browser is no longer being developed or distributed.
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