[Bug 23646] "us-ascii" should not be an alias for "windows-1252"

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23646

--- Comment #35 from Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> ---
(In reply to Anne from comment #34)
> The examples in comment 11 are not compelling and do not indicate a
> widespread problem. That some packages operate in a way different from
> products shipping to billions of people is not indicative of much.

I wouldn't call JRE or .NET Runtime "some packages" and "not indicative".

> I'm sure you appreciate it's hard to prove a negative. The evidence I have
> is that all browsers operate in the same way and given that there's likely
> content that depends on that, e.g. per the scenario from comment 19.

Scenario from #19 talks about ISO-8859-1. Here I agree. But I have never seen
page that asked browser to send form data in us-ascii encoding. Have you?

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Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 08:30:26 UTC