- From: Joshua Bell <jsbell@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:42:07 -0600
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Joshua Bell <jsbell@chromium.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:48 AM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Any disagreement on limiting the supported encodings to utf-8, utf-16, and > utf-16be, while permitting decoding of all encodings in the Encoding spec? > > (This eliminates the "what to do on encoding error" issue nicely, still > need to resolve the BOM issue though.) > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/StringEncoding has been updated to restrict the supported encodings for encoding to UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-16BE. I'm tempted to take it further to just UTF-8 and see if anyone complains. Jury is still out on the decode-with-BOM issue - I need to reason through Glenn's suggestions on the "open issues" thread. I added a related open issue raised by Glenn, summarized as "... suggest that the .encoding attribute simply return the name that was passed to the constructor." - taking this further, perhaps the attribute should be eliminated as callers could apply it themselves.
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