Re: [whatwg/fetch] Mark Accept-* request headers as simple / safe (#326)

No application _has_ to handle `Accept-Encoding` by itself, as they are not obliged to set it. Furthermore, decoding is handled by the browser currently, so there is no need to change that.

What could happen is that the server sends a response in an encoding the browser does not support. This can be caused by the application using an unsupported value in `Accept-Encoding`, or by the server ignoring the `Accept-Encoding` value. In those cases, the request fails (as it would anyway).

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