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Bug 17860 - i18n-ISSUE-104: clarify "additional requirements on character encodings"
Summary: i18n-ISSUE-104: clarify "additional requirements on character encodings"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Depends on: 16969
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Reported: 2012-07-18 07:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-12-29 23:29 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:05:14 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 16969 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-05-07 17:39:00 +0000
Original reporter: Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com>

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 #0   Addison Phillips                                2012-05-07 17:39:01 +0000 
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2.2.2 Dependencies
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#dependencies

Contains this note:

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This specification might have certain additional requirements on character encodings, image formats, audio formats, and video formats in the respective sections.
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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?
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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2012-05-10 17:50:22 +0000 
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For instance. Or that BOMs be used in particular ways, or that decoding happen in particular ways, or anything really.
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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-27 23:38:24 UTC
Not really sure how best to clarify this, do you have any suggestions?
Comment 2 Addison Phillips 2012-09-28 00:05:56 UTC
Based on your last response and our review in the WG, I think you can close this.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-12-29 23:29:19 UTC
Ok.