Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

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On Tuesday 19 May 2020 02:07, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:

> I thought about autodetection---Unicode is defined in blocks, where each
> alphabet becomes a defined block in Unicode. I then realized that there are
> multiple languages that use the European block. Sure, detecting Greek is
> easy since they have their own alphabet, but what about Spanish, French and
> German? They use the same alphabet.

Autodetection is necessary for document using multiple languages.
Browser preference is fine for hard to detect case.

> > I'm not sure I see the point in the encoding part, though...
> > practically everything can be converted to utf8 rather easily, making it a bit useless to
> > specify...
>
> Think legacy documents. And not every legacy encoding scheme can round
> trip through Unicode---I recall there being issues with several east Asian
> languages (Chinese, Japanese in particular).

UTF-8 is capable for all existing language and more :-).
Legacy document if not UTF-8 converted are just out of the gemeni browser scope.
Must gemini browser be able to display every kind of document ?

Regards,
freD.