Re: [whatwg/encoding] Concatenating two ISO-2022-JP outputs from a conforming encoder doesn't result in conforming input (#115)

> > Did no one consider always generating a mode change before the first character, and then never generating a mode change at the end?
> 
> That would be quite a departure from the existing practice of encoders.

Yet seemingly much more sound, and thus more useful. I guess I'm not clear whether there's any actual compatibility problems with that, whether there's a process for evaluating that, and whether something that was once broken is required to be broken forever.

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