This repository hosts the Encoding Standard.

Code of conduct

We are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all. Please read and respect the WHATWG Code of Conduct.

Contribution opportunities

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.

Pull requests

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.

Building "locally"

For quick local iteration, run make. To verify your changes locally, run make deploy. See more in the WHATWG Contributor Guidelines.

Merge policy

If you can commit to this repository, see the WHATWG Maintainer Guidelines.

Tests

Tests can be found in the encoding/ directory of web-platform-tests/wpt.