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2.2.2 Dependencies http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#dependencies Contains this note: -- This specification might have certain additional requirements on character encodings, image formats, audio formats, and video formats in the respective sections. -- This note is not clear. I'm not sure what an "additional requirement on character encodings" would be? Does it mean that certain character encodings will be required/banned?
For instance. Or that BOMs be used in particular ways, or that decoding happen in particular ways, or anything really.
This bug was cloned to create bug 17860 as part of operation convergence.
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I have reviewed the section in the current document. I don't think any additional changes are needed.