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Bug 99 - ISO-8859-11 now treated as Win-874
ISO-8859-11 now treated as Win-874
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Validator.nu
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML parser
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Assigned To: Henri Sivonen
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Reported: 2008-03-03 13:10 CET by Nobody
Modified: 2008-03-20 16:11 CET (History)
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Description Nobody 2008-03-03 13:10:46 CET
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--- source	(revision 1270)
+++ source	(revision 1271)
@@ -35963,14 +35963,16 @@
   href="#refsIANACHARSET">[IANACHARSET]</a></p>
 
   <p>When a user agent would otherwise use the ISO-8859-1 encoding, it
-  must instead use the Windows-1252 encoding, except that any bytes in
-  the range 0x80 to 0x9F must, in addition to being interpreted as per
-  the Windows-1252 encoding, be considered <span title="parse
-  error">parse errors</span>.</p>
-
-  <p class="note">The requirement to treat ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252
-  is a willful violation of the W3C Character Model specification. <a
-  href="#refsCHARMOD">[CHARMOD]</a></p>
+  must instead use the Windows-1252 encoding; when a user agent would
+  otherwise use the ISO-8859-11 encoding, it must instead use the
+  Windows-874 encoding. In both cases, any bytes in the range 0x80 to
+  0x9F must, in addition to being interpreted as per the Windows
+  encoding instead of as a control character, be considered <span
+  title="parse error">parse errors</span>.</p>
+
+  <p class="note">The requirement to treat certain ISO-8859 encodings
+  as Windows encodings is a willful violation of the W3C Character
+  Model specification. <a href="#refsCHARMOD">[CHARMOD]</a></p>
 
   <p>User agents must not support the CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU
   encodings. <a href="#refsCESU8">[CESU8]</a> <a