hixie: Blacklist another encoding. Couldn't find a reference for it though. (whatwg r4367)

hixie: Blacklist another encoding. Couldn't find a reference for it
though. (whatwg r4367)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3499&r2=1.3500&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4366&to=4367

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3499
retrieving revision 1.3500
diff -u -d -r1.3499 -r1.3500
--- Overview.html 27 Oct 2009 19:51:36 -0000 1.3499
+++ Overview.html 27 Oct 2009 20:09:43 -0000 1.3500
@@ -10427,13 +10427,15 @@
   string. Authors should not use such encodings, which are known to
   include JIS_C6226-1983<!-- aka JIS-X-0208, x-JIS0208 -->,
   JIS_X0212-1990<!-- aka JIS-X-0212 -->, HZ-GB-2312<!-- has crazy
-  handling of ASCII "~" -->, encodings based on ISO-2022<!--
+  handling of ASCII "~" -->, JOHAB <!-- a supplementary encoding in KS
+  C 5601-1992 Annex 3 (= KS X 1001:1998 Annex 3) --> (Windows code
+  page 1361), encodings based on ISO-2022<!--
   http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090628#l-422 and
   http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-October/023797.html
-  -->, and encodings based on EBCDIC. Furthermore, authors must not use
-  the CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU encodings, which also fall into
-  this category, because these encodings were never intended for use
-  for Web content.
+  -->, and encodings based on EBCDIC. Furthermore, authors must not
+  use the CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU encodings, which also fall
+  into this category, because these encodings were never intended for
+  use for Web content.
   <a href="#refsRFC1345">[RFC1345]</a><!-- for the JIS types -->
   <a href="#refsRFC1842">[RFC1842]</a><!-- HZ-GB-2312 -->
   <a href="#refsRFC1468">[RFC1468]</a><!-- ISO-2022-JP -->
@@ -10445,7 +10447,7 @@
   <a href="#refsUTF7">[UTF7]</a>
   <a href="#refsBOCU1">[BOCU1]</a>
   <a href="#refsSCSU">[SCSU]</a>
-  <!-- no idea what to reference for EBCDIC, so... -->
+  <!-- no idea what to reference for JOHAB or EBCDIC, so... -->
   <p>Authors should not use UTF-32, as the HTML5 encoding detection
   algorithms intentionally do not distinguish it from UTF-16. <a href="#refsUNICODE">[UNICODE]</a><p class="note">Using non-UTF-8 encodings can have unexpected
   results on form submission and URL encodings, which use the

Received on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 20:12:52 UTC