[whatwg] StringEncoding: Allowed encodings for TextEncoder from Jonas Sicking on 2012-08-07 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from August 2012)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:39:49 -0700
To: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <CA+c2ei8vUCvqYLVtF5ATvTsbvPesej4rCbLoRu-QKdah6z5X1A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I seem to have a recollection that we discussed only allowing encoding
to UTF8 and UTF16LE, UTF16BE. This in order to promote these formats
as well as stay in sync with other APIs like XMLHttpRequest.

However I currently can't find any restrictions on which target
encodings are supported in the current drafts.

One wrinkle in this is if we want to support arbitrary encodings when
encoding, that means that we can't use "insert a the replacement
character" as default error handling since that isn't available in a
lot of encoding formats.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 7 August 2012 04:40:48 UTC