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Should the character encoding not only apply to HTML? This is how it was originally. Now it is in its standalone section that bit of information seems to have gone lost.
Could you elaborate?
The text in "Character encodings" was initially part of the HTML parsing section. It is no longer there and the new section and text seems to implicate that ISO-8859-1 must be treated as Windows-1252 in XML too. And while I personally would be fine with that, so far we've always said this was text/html-only.
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