This repository hosts the Encoding Standard.
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all. Please read and respect the WHATWG Code of Conduct.
We'd love your help fixing the minor and larger issues with the Encoding Standard. Pull requests for typographical and grammar errors are also most welcome.
We'd be happy to mentor you through this process. If you're interested and need help getting started, leave a comment on the issue or ask around on IRC.
In short, change encoding.bs and submit your patch, with a
good commit message. Consider
reading through the WHATWG FAQ if you are new here.
Please add your name to the Acknowledgments section in your first pull request, even for trivial fixes. The names are sorted lexicographically.
If you want to preview the spec locally, you can either use a locally installed copy of
Bikeshed by running make or use the HTTP API version by
running make remote.
If you want to do a complete "local deploy" including commit and/or branch snapshots, run
make deploy.
If you can commit to this repository, see the WHATWG Maintainer Guidelines.
Tests can be found in the encoding/ directory of
web-platform-tests.