- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:31:17 -0500
- To: Bonnie Surender <bsurender@mozilla.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Bonnie Surender <bsurender@mozilla.com>wrote: > Wrt to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764234 and API > description http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/StringEncoding section "Note to > Implementers", "Some encode/decode algorithms require adjusting thecode > point pointer orbyte pointer by a negative amount.", " N is defined by > the specific encoding algorithm." > > Where can I find the definition of 'N' for the specific encoding > algorithm? I can't seem to find it at http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/** > encoding/raw-file/tip/**Overview.html#encodings<http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/encoding/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#encodings> > . > It needs to be inferred from the algorithms. I doubt any of them require rewinding more than a couple bytes; picking a liberally "large" value like 16 is probably safe for everything. There's no point in trying to minimize it just to save a couple bytes of buffer. -- Glenn Maynard
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