- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:05:23 +0300
On Jun 2, 2008, at 04:27, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> Firefox and Opera being able get away with not supporting EBCDIC >> flavors suggests that EBCDIC-based encodings cannot be particularly >> Web-relevant. Even if saying that browsers MUST NOT support them >> might end up being a dead letter, it seems that it would be >> feasible to say that browsers SHOULD NOT support them or at least >> MUST NOT let a heuristic detector guess EBCDIC (for security >> reasons). > > Gecko does support UTF-7 and will continue to do so because UTF-7 is > still in use as a character set for mail encoding and multi-part > MIME documents. Does/will Gecko support UTF-7 as a possible heuristic detector guess on the Web/HTTP side? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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