hixie: Allow UAs to use the URL to sniff encoding. (whatwg r4230)

hixie: Allow UAs to use the URL to sniff encoding. (whatwg r4230)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3375&r2=1.3376&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4229&to=4230

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3375
retrieving revision 1.3376
diff -u -d -r1.3375 -r1.3376
--- Overview.html 21 Oct 2009 05:37:38 -0000 1.3375
+++ Overview.html 21 Oct 2009 05:43:48 -0000 1.3376
@@ -54449,7 +54449,9 @@
 
     <p>The user agent may attempt to autodetect the character encoding
     from applying frequency analysis or other algorithms to the data
-    stream. If autodetection succeeds in determining a character
+    stream. Such algorithms may use information about the resource
+    other than the resource's contents, including the address of the
+    resource. If autodetection succeeds in determining a character
     encoding, then return that encoding, with the <a href="#concept-encoding-confidence" title="concept-encoding-confidence">confidence</a>
     <i>tentative</i>, and abort these steps. <a href="#refsUNIVCHARDET">[UNIVCHARDET]</a></p>

Received on Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:44:30 UTC