- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:34:13 +0200
On 2012-04-23 10:19, Henri Sivonen wrote: > ... > * The Universal detector is used regardless of UI setting or locale > when using the FileReader to read a local file as text. (I'm > personally very unhappy about this sort of use of heuristics in a new > feature.) > ... +1 > ... > WebVTT is a new format with no legacy. Instead of letting it become > infected with heuristic detection, we should go the other direction > and hardwire it as UTF-8 like we did with app cache manifests and > JSON-in-XHR. No one should be creating new content in encodings other > than UTF-8. Those who can't be bothered to use The Encoding deserve > REPLACEMENT CHARACTERs. Heuristic detection is for unlabeled legacy > content. > ... +1
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