8845 2010-01-30 17:10:00 +0000 Reference for (US-)ASCII 2010-10-04 13:57:43 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX TrackerIssue P2 normal --- 1 julian.reschke ian annevk ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 31360 0 julian.reschke 2010-01-30 17:10:00 +0000 The spec uses RFC 1345 as normative reference for what US-ASCII is. That is a poor choice. Please use a reference to the ANSI or ISO spec that actually defines ASCII, such as [ANSI.X3-4.1986] American National Standards Institute, "Coded Character Set - 7-bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4, 1986. (taken from the relatively recent RFC 5322). RFC 1345 is a non-maintained, historic, informational RFC that's not really a good definition for ASCII. If you disagree, please name a single RFC that has been published in the last 20 years that uses RFC 1345 to reference ASCII (I just searched, and couldn't find any). 31961 1 ian 2010-02-14 05:21:49 +0000 RFC1345 has the distinct advantage of actually saying what ASCII is and how it maps to Unicode in a file that is immediately accessible via a Web search for the term "RFC 1345" or by following the link in the references. Searching for "ANSI.X3-4.1986" gives you basically nothing useful (a Wikipedia page on ASCII, at best). Also, please don't file bugs on such trivial and unimportant matters. EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: RFC1345 is a more useful reference for all practical purposes. 32046 2 julian.reschke 2010-02-14 10:32:00 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Also, please don't file bugs on such trivial and unimportant matters. I'll do that once you stop ignoring expert advice from the IETF. See http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg01131.html and http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg01155.html 32173 3 julian.reschke 2010-02-16 13:14:11 +0000 Raised as http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/101 (Ian: feel free to close this one; I wasn't sure what resolution to set)