Re: [whatwg] Is EBCDIC support needed for not breaking the Web?

Henri Sivonen wrote:

> Firefox and Opera being able get away with not supporting EBCDIC flavors 
> suggests that EBCDIC-based encodings cannot be particularly 
> Web-relevant. Even if saying that browsers MUST NOT support them might 
> end up being a dead letter, it seems that it would be feasible to say 
> that browsers SHOULD NOT support them or at least MUST NOT let a 
> heuristic detector guess EBCDIC (for security reasons).

Gecko does support UTF-7 and will continue to do so because UTF-7 is still 
in use as a character set for mail encoding and multi-part MIME documents.

--BDS