Re: [whatwg/encoding] Amount of bytes to sniff for encoding detection (#102)

I'd like some more detail on this detector. I assume the goal is to avoid reloading, so would we essentially stop the parser if we hit non-ASCII in the first 4k and then wait for the 4k or end-of-file to determine the encoding for the remainder of the bytes?

Does that also mean we'd never detect ISO-2022-JP or UTF-16, which are ASCII-incompatible?

Does it only run as a last resort?

I also know that Henri has been exploring alternative strategies for locale-specific fallback. Rather than using the user's locale, use the locale inferred from the domain's TLD. It would be interesting to know how that contrasts with a detector.

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