15192 2011-12-15 00:28:52 +0000 section 8.1.4 Character references; section 8.2.2.2 Character encodings In section 8.2.2.2, we say, "User agents must at a minimum support the UTF-8 and Windows-1252 encodings, but may support more." In section 8.1.4, we say, "The numeric character refere 2012-01-18 15:35:15 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian mike Ms2ger public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 61575 0 contributor 2011-12-15 00:28:52 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: section 8.1.4 Character references; section 8.2.2.2 Character encodings In section 8.2.2.2, we say, "User agents must at a minimum support the UTF-8 and Windows-1252 encodings, but may support more." In section 8.1.4, we say, "The numeric character reference forms described above are allowed to reference any Unicode code point other than U+0000, U+000D, permanently undefined Unicode characters (noncharacters), and control characters other than space characters." What about the characters in the range 0x80 to 0x9F, which in Windows-1252 encodings are replaced with printable characters? For example, am I allowed to use a Windows-1252 codepoint, "€", to reference the Euro character, "€"? Does the browser have to further interpret strings after replacing character references? I suggest we add a note to 8.1.4 Character references: "The numeric character references are to Unicode code points, so instead of using character references in the range of € to Ÿ from the Windows-1252 encoding, use the appropriate Unicode character. Instead of using character references in the range of &#D800; to &#DFFF; as surrogate pairs from the UTF-16 encoding, use the appropriate Unicode character." Posted from: 96.53.31.86 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)