- From: Henri Sivonen <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:08:41 -0700
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> Sure, but I think that this usecase (asking for only valid UTF-8 output) is common enough s/valid UTF-8/lossless UTF-8/. I don't think it has been demonstrated that asking for losslessness is going to be a common use case. So far, experience with the Servo style engine in particular suggests that the Web, despite Hyrum's Law generally ruling everything, is remarkably free of relying on unpaired surrogates. > I don't think that the actual shape of public-facing APIs should be driven by existing internal implementations... It shouldn't. I'm just mentioning the implementation distance for particular approaches. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/whatwg/encoding/issues/174#issuecomment-479041419
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