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

From: Gavin Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:14:15 +0000

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:
> 
> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-declarations
> 
> 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.

You mean 1024 bytes.

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 
be too late.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2017-08/msg00014.html

I've attempted to fix it in commit 749dcd4a5.  Thanks for the report.