I'm leaning towards something along these lines:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">... charset is required, but it is up to the developer
to chose their doctype and which tag they wish to use. This is no different than
requiring a doctype. This does not mandate which one, as long as it is
a syntactically correct current standard.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Cais. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Reverted the codex back to having it until we can
get together to rewrite the wording properly and get a concise
answer.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">- Phil</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b>From:</b>
<a title="wp@andrewnacin.com" href="mailto:wp@andrewnacin.com" target="_blank">Andrew Nacin</a>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="philip@frumph.net" href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 26, 2010 3:44
AM</div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Edit to
codex, regarding charset etc.</div>
<div><br></div>On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>>
wrote:<br>> ** Correct content-type meta declaration:
<nowiki><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php
bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>"
/></nowiki> declared before
<nowiki><title></nowiki><br>> <br>> This has
been verified with the core team as being not a requirement due to elements in
it are HTML5, removed from the theme_review codex as a requirement.<br>>
<br>> - Phil
<div><br></div>
<div>HTML5 allows for <meta charset> instead of the longer version.
Charset should remain a requirement, but it is up to the developer to chose
their doctype and which tag they wish to use. No different than requiring a
doctype but not mandating which one, as long as it is syntactically
correct.</div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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