Re: [FileAPI, common] UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Arun Ranganathan < aranganathan@mozilla.com > wrote: 

> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Arun Ranganathan <
> > aranganathan@mozilla.com > wrote:
> 

> > > Should the actual UTF-8 encoding algorithm be specified by HTML?
> > 
> 
> > I don't know, since I think that Unicode to UTF-8 is pretty common.
> > Might help if it was part of the common infrastructure.
> 

> what needs to be specified that isn't already found in Unicode [1],
> clause D92, p92ff?

> [1] http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch03.pdf
I think that gets us by. Do you think we need a reference in FileAPI? Or can we merely say to encode as UTF-8 and leave it to implementations (a reasonable assumption IMHO). 

-- A* 

Received on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:58:43 UTC