ISSUE-327: 'Fallback' encoding

'Fallback' encoding

State:

CLOSED

Product:

css-syntax

Raised by:

Richard Ishida

Opened on:

2013-12-19

Description:

3.2 The input byte stream
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-syntax/#input-byte-stream

Why refer to the 'fallback' encoding? Why not just say, "determine the encoding:"?

I guess this might be a question for the Encoding spec, but it's not clear to me why you would go to all the trouble of determining a fallback encoding before testing whether there is a byte order mark, since if there is you just throw all that work away anyway.

It would also be much clearer if the steps simply said
1. test for http...
2. check for bom
3. check for @charset
4. look for environment encoding
5. use utf-8

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Related emails:

1. [minutes] Internationalization telecon 2013-12-19 (from ishida@w3.org on 2014-01-14)
2. [css-syntax] CR publication, Encodings and @charset (from simon.sapin@exyr.org on 2014-01-07)
3. I18N-ISSUE-327: 'Fallback' encoding [.prep-css3-syntax] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-12-19)

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