[Bug 23646] "us-ascii" should not be an alias for "windows-1252"

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23646

Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
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         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---

--- Comment #7 from Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> ---
The trouble is that Encoding spec defines algorithms both for encoding and
decoding. For decoding it's completely reasonable to treat "us-ascii" as an
alias for "windows-1252". However when you encode text using "us-ascii"
encoding any character outside U+0000-U+007F must be replaced, escaped (in HTML
mode) or it's an error.

So either "us-ascii" must be handled separately (at least for encoding
purposes) or Encoding spec should be changed to talk about decoding only.

Jirka

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Received on Friday, 27 June 2014 07:59:05 UTC