Re: [whatwg/encoding] Confusion between Big5 and Big5-HKSCS encodings (#75)

> > glibc's iconv's big5-hkscs fails when decoding 0xC6 0xD3, which Encoding Standard decodes to U+65E0.
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> This came up in https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Apr/thread.html#msg95 too. Is the mapping currently in the spec a problem?

I'm not aware of this being a practical problem on the Web. I just happened to notice this when I tried to benchmark encoding_rs vs. glibc.

On the high level, I'm reluctant to change anything regarding Big5 in the spec without evidence of breakage exhibited on the Web. (That is, abstract inconsistency with a particular converter library isn't in itself a reason to change the spec.)

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