26685 2014-08-28 11:02:16 +0000 Mention actual goal (UTF-8) in preface 2014-09-01 19:38:20 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG Encoding unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal Unsorted 1 ishida annevk mike www-international sideshowbarker+encodingspec oldest_to_newest 110705 0 ishida 2014-08-28 11:02:16 +0000 During the i18n telecon it was suggested that, in addition to the current text, the Preface probably ought to mention upfront that the key goal of the Encoding spec is for authors and new protocols and formats etc to use the utf-8 encoding and use the ASCII case-insensitive "utf-8" label to identify it, and that the other encodings are described in the spec in order to establish interoperability in legacy contexts in the Open Web where use of UTF-8 is not feasible. I was actioned to ask whether it would be possible to add an initial paragraph to say something along those lines? 110758 1 duerst 2014-08-29 08:00:20 +0000 I think this is an excellent idea, because it calls out what the core idea of the document is! 110810 2 annevk 2014-08-31 16:31:41 +0000 To be fair, the core idea was always to document the legacy encodings. I had not realized at the time there was nothing forbidding new protocols and formats to allow legacy encodings. But I don't mind mentioning utf-8 even more. 110824 3 annevk 2014-09-01 18:19:49 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/encoding/commit/d6eaebe4436ada349218ce9b22ccc104e5f8caab 110827 4 ishida 2014-09-01 19:38:20 +0000 Thanks!