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[Bug 24581] Fix ByteString type & [EnsureUTF16] flag story

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:31:59 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24581

--- Comment #9 from Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> ---
> Who is the audience here, what's the threat model?

The threat model is people who have no clue what they're doing (most web spec
authors at one point or another, and quite rationally so) going "Oooh, Unicode
is the shiny, I should use that" and not realizing that in this case "Unicode"
actually means "dataloss" in many cases.

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