- From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:10:38 -0400
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 8/7/2012 12:39 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > 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. I found that the wiki version of the proposal cites <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/encoding/raw-file/tip/Overview.html> as the way to find encodings. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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