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RE: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

2003-09-19 07:11:16

MURATA Makoto wrote:
If we really promote in-band declarations, we should recommend 
one mechanism for all textual formats.  I think that CSS style 
declaration (@chaset) is the best I have seen.  If the TAG recommends 
this mechanism for all formats except XML and HTML, that would 
be one reasonable principle.

The Character Model section 3.6.2 [1] addresses this question but stops
short of recommending a single mechanism.  I guess you think it should.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-EncodingIdent

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François Yergeau