Re: [whatwg/encoding] Adding BRF as "legacy" single-byte encoding for braille (#40)

@sthibaul how are these resources published to the web? Surely they are converted at that point?

Note that we intentionally do not want to rely on IANA. We don't want to support all encodings. A lot of them have security vulnerabilities and it's much better overall for folks to converge on utf-8.

If a legacy encoding is not supported by any browser, there's no reason to add one now, especially since there is a Unicode mapping available.

There are many formats not directly compatible with the web, but the web has sufficient tooling these days to build interpreters for them. It doesn't need native support for all these legacy formats.

Closing this based on the above. I hope you can appreciate why we don't want to do this.

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