- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:29:41 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com> wrote: > I am wondering how the caller can guess the encoding better than the user agent. Why is that so? (Apologies if this was addressed before, if so I'd appreciate a pointer.) One situation is the page asking the user. Imagine a HTML editor implemented in a web page. The user can open HTML files using <input type=file> which are then read and parsed using the File API. If the user sees that the file has weird characters in it, the page provides a drop-down containing a common set of languages. Once the user selects a language the file is reread, reparsed and redisplayed. Another use case is a site targetting only users of a particular locale (by being translated only to that locale). Such a site could make a good guess that any files provided by the user is encoded in an encoding common for that locale. / Jonass
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