[Bug 24386] Consider allowing more encodings in TextEncoder

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24386

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi> ---
(In reply to Anne from comment #0)
> People writing web-based email applications have found a need for it.

I think this needs more information about what the need is, etc. So far, it
looks like refusing to support non-UTF on the TextEncoder side has been a
success by making Gaia email just use UTF-8 (as opposed to e.g. resulting in
encoders written in JS):
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia-email-libs-and-more/blob/master/data/lib/js-shims/faux-encoding.js#L37

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Received on Monday, 27 January 2014 12:03:02 UTC