- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:26:27 +0200
- To: "Marek Pawlowski" <marekp.w3c@gmail.com>, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:20:20 +0200, Marek Pawlowski <marekp.w3c@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/1/08, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> Firefox and Opera being able get away with not supporting EBCDIC >> flavors suggests that EBCDIC-based encodings cannot be particularly >> Web-relevant. >> Even if saying that browsers MUST NOT support them might end up being a >> dead letter, it seems that it would be feasible to say that browsers >> SHOULD NOT support them or at least MUST NOT let a heuristic detector >> guess EBCDIC (for security reasons). > > Opera on Windows (9.50b and 9.27) also lists UTF-7 in > View->Encoding->Unicode submenu. FWIW, we're planning on removing UTF-7 support for the browsing part of our product (it will still be supported for e-mail). We're also planning on removing UTF-32 support completely. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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