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

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:12:41 +0000 (UTC)
To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
Cc: "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0808292012060.7044@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Phillips, Addison wrote:
> 
> In particular, the *autodetection* of UTF-7 as an encoding in Web pages 
> should be a "MUST NOT" in HTML5, IMHO, because that is a well-known XSS 
> attack. Auto-detection of UTF-7 serves no other purpose in real-world 
> Web documents. I believe there is a TAG finding to this effect. Further, 
> the authors of the UTF-7 RFCs have expressed support for that course of 
> action (as has the I18N WG and, I believe, the UTC).

Is there something in HTML5 that I missed? I thought we already said this.

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