- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:41:32 -0700
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Jonas Sicking wrote: >> The only use case I've heard so far is the ability to request a >> pure-ascii response. Or I guess more generally requesting an encoding >> that only contains a specific subset of the unicode map. However I'm not >> sure what value this gives over simply looping over responseText and >> testing if all chars are in the desired subset. > > I think testing won't get you very far as far as I understant the use > case here. If you have a text file with my name, one in US-ASCII with > "Bjoern" and one in ISO-8859-1 with "Björn", getting the latter would > mean you have to replace "ö" with "oe" in the script if you really > want the us-ascii transliteration. I'm convinced :) This is a good enough use case that it'll override the 'shoot yourself in the foot' argument. / Jonas
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