- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 08/07/2012 07:51 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > I don't mind supporting *decoding* from basically any encoding that > Anne's spec enumerates. I don't see a downside with that since I > suspect most implementations will just call into a generic decoding > backend anyway, and so supporting the same set of encodings as for > other parts of the platform should be relatively easy. [...] > However I think we should consider restricting support to a smaller > set of encodings for while *encoding*. There should be little reason > for people today to produce text in non-utf formats. We might even be > able to get away with only supporting UTF8, though I wouldn't be > surprised if there are reasonably modern file formats which use utf16. FWIW, I agree with the decode-from-all-platform-encodings encode-to-utf[8|16] position.
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