From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ineiev Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: texi2html output validity Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:05:28 -0500 Message-ID: <20141225140528.GB16721@gnu.org> References: <87k31kga2y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87r3vsdps7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87a92ehctk.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net> <20141223164911.GD5623@free.fr> <871tnp682q.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419516343 7818 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2014 14:05:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers , bug-texinfo@gnu.org, Yuri Khan To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 25 15:05:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-texinfo2@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y492m-0002qn-0O for gnu-bug-texinfo2@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 15:05:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y492k-0007TZ-Se for gnu-bug-texinfo2@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y492i-0007SZ-0X for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y492h-0007we-A8 for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:05:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y492h-0007wa-6g; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:05:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ineiev by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y492e-0006wx-Cr; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:05:28 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871tnp682q.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: bug-texinfo@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:7002 gmane.emacs.devel:180655 Archived-At: On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:27:25PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > AFAIK the encoding declaration is optional, defaulting to UTF-8. In > that case, we can (and IMHO *should*, but I am no longer an expert on > current encoding practice) require that our software generate UTF-8 > and omit the declaration. Non-UTF-8 should be invalid in Info-HTML. The fact is that some users have ASCII-incompatible default encodings (like UTF-16). if we add the declaration, it costs little, but the pages just work for them.