XHR: Unicode signature stripping

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:25:20 +0200
• To: public-webapps@w3.org
• Message-ID: <9v5la6pjsjv0q7qk188hiker35ajfj14aa@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

Hi,

  In http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-XMLHttpRequest-20100803/ section
3.7.5. does not explicitly call out that the bytes corresponding to
the Unicode signature are treated as Unicode signature and are thus
stripped from the input. It should.

I do note that failing to discriminate between types that allow for
a Unicode signature and types that do not creates interoperability
problems. application/json for instance prohibits using it, and as
a consequence many parsers reject it, whereas using it would appear
to work fine in "AJAX" setups.

regards,
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Received on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 03:32:41 UTC