bug#38722: closed (27.0.50; bad position of character encoding declaration in the HTML version of manuals)

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> Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:32:55 +0900
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> According to the W3C internationalization activity, the character encoding 
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> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-declarations
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> The current declaration falls short of that by about 30 bits because of the 871 
> characters long comment describing the contents to the file which could be put 
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> Jean-Christophe Helary
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> Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:32:55PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> >> According to the W3C internationalization activity, the character encoding 
> >> declaration must be fully included in the first 1024 bits of the HTML page:
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> >> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-declarations
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> >> The current declaration falls short of that by about 30 bits because of the 
> >> 871 characters long comment describing the contents to the file which could 
> >> be put right after the declaration.
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> > You mean 1024 bytes.
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> > We attempted to fix this issue before but apparently it is not enough.
> > If the copying statement is too long, then the encoding declaration will
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> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2017-08/msg00014.html
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> > I've attempted to fix it in commit 749dcd4a5.  Thanks for the report.
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> If I understand this thread correctly, this was a bug in texinfo, and
> not in Emacs.  I'm therefore closing the Emacs bug report now.
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> If this conclusion is incorrect, please reply to this email (use "Reply
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> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
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