Re: [whatwg/encoding] Allow conformant implementations to support non-UTF-8 encodings (#144)

> The Encoding Standard seeks to be normative over Web browsers. In the context of Web browsers, it would be bad to suggest that browsers can support other encodings, because that would result in Web content that's browsable in some browsers but not others. Importantly, additional encodings don't add any expressiveness to platform over UTF-8 anyway, since everything decodes to Unicode.

The suggestion that huge parts of the web, which were created (in "good faith") using non-UTF-8 charset encoding, and continue to be created that way, should be made non-browsable so as to make browser behavior uniform, seems bizarre and, frankly, somewhat offensive.  (And that's doubly the case considering how additional charset encodings are to be added in the future anyway.)

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