Network.CGI maintenance and character encoding problem

[Mark Lentczner]

Jon -

Network.CGI was frozen at 3001.1.7.5 because later versions had
dependencies (MonadCatchIO-mtl) that are not in the platform. Further, I am
dropping it as it no longer builds. If you have a patch that works against
3001.1.7.5, and causes that to build under GHC 7.8.3... Then let's see if
we can roust Anders.

However, this is 11th hour - this would all have to happen this week to
make it into the platform.

- Mark

An aside: Actually, HTML, at various times, has mandated treating text
marked IOS-8859-1 as Windows-1259. Alas, the thing is a "living standard",
and written in mutable, procedural style (in English no less) - and they
keep changing it and refuse to have a versioning policy so it is impossible
to point at previous langague in it. But the relevant section is here: HTML
Standard §12.2.2.3
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#character-encodings>,
though now even harder to understand. Though this The WHATWG Blog — The
Road to HTML 5: character encoding
<http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding> is a bit
more clear about the "willful violation of the W3C Character Model
specification"!
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