ISSUE-60: Omit the either/or list

Omit the either/or list

State:

CLOSED

Product:

polyglot

Raised by:

Richard Ishida

Opened on:

2011-06-21

Description:

3. Character Encoding
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#character-encoding

WG Approved: Yes


" In short, for correct character encoding, polyglot markup must either: "

The MUST is too strong. There is no problem with using more than one declaration, and in an earlier comment we said that we recommend that you have a readable declaration in the source in addition to a UTF8/16 encoding.

I think it is better just to omit the list and it's lead-in paragraph "In short, for correct ...".

The information is contained in the following paragraph that starts with "If polyglot markup uses an encoding other than..."

Please add comments to bugzilla:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10151


IMPORTANT: This issue was moved from our old review tracking system to the new tracker system. For previous mail relating to this issue, see:
http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=[polyglot]%20%20Omit%20the%20either/or%20list&hdr-2-name=from&hdr-2-query=&hdr-3-name=message-id&hdr-3-query=&index-grp=Member__FULL+Public__FULL&index-type=t&type-index=public-i18n-core%40w3.org&resultsperpage=20&sortby=date

and
http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=%20i18n%20comments%20on%20Polyglot%20Markup&hdr-2-name=from&hdr-2-query=&hdr-3-name=message-id&hdr-3-query=&index-grp=Member__FULL+Public__FULL&index-type=t&type-index=public-i18n-core%40w3.org&resultsperpage=20&sortby=date

Related Actions Items:

No related actions

Related emails:

1. Review of tracker issues for best practices (part II) (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-03-28)
2. [minutes] Internationalization WG telecon 2011-07-27 (from ishida@w3.org on 2011-07-27)

Related notes:

Display change log