Bug 610 – Authoring tools - use UTF-8 please. (bug 6993)

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Bug 610 - Authoring tools - use UTF-8 please. (bug 6993)


Summary:	Authoring tools - use UTF-8 please. (bug 6993)

Status:	NEW

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

URL:	http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/source?...

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Reported:	2009-07-14 15:02 CEST by Henri Sivonen
Modified:	2009-11-23 17:17 CET (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Henri Sivonen 2009-07-14 15:02:33 CEST

Index: source
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--- source	(revision 3281)
+++ source	(revision 3282)
@@ -10761,6 +10761,9 @@
   <p>Authors are encouraged to use UTF-8. Conformance checkers may
   advise against authors using legacy encodings.</p>
 
+  <p>Authoring tools should default to using UTF-8 for newly-created
+  documents.</p>
+
   <p>In XHTML, the XML declaration should be used for inline character
   encoding information, if necessary.</p>