{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/encoding/issues/10","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/encoding/issues/10/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/encoding/issues/10/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/encoding/issues/10/events","html_url":"https://github.com/whatwg/encoding/issues/10","id":112334882,"number":10,"title":"Clarify scope of document in preface","user":{"login":"nigelmegitt","id":4988915,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4988915?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt","html_url":"https://github.com/nigelmegitt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2015-10-20T10:21:56Z","updated_at":"2015-10-20T12:44:25Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The Preface claims: \r\n> \"… this specification … defines … the utf-8 encoding.\"\r\n\r\nIsn't that formalised in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 and Unicode? I'm not suggesting that the contents of this document aren't useful, just that they don't define utf-8. \r\n\r\nI suggest resolving this issue by:\r\n\r\n1. Removing \"(and defines)\" from the preface.\r\n2. Adding a reference to ISO/IEC 10646 to the References section and referring to it in the definition of utf-8."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/encoding/issues/comments/149553243","html_url":"https://github.com/whatwg/encoding/issues/10#issuecomment-149553243","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/encoding/issues/10","id":149553243,"user":{"login":"nigelmegitt","id":4988915,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4988915?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt","html_url":"https://github.com/nigelmegitt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nigelmegitt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-20T12:44:25Z","updated_at":"2015-10-20T12:44:25Z","body":"I'm not in a huge hurry, just like to make things neat and tidy.\r\n\r\nMarking the encoding algorithm non-normative would be helpful - it doesn't stop it from being self contained for reference within the document. I suppose it would be okay to keep it normative but add a statement along the lines of \"This is [identical to|based on] what is specified in 10646\"."}}