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

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

--- Comment #42 from Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> ---
> You should be doing your Web compat reasoning from browsers with substantial market share. eww isn't one.

Well, I happened to be using Emacs at the time, but how about Chromium and
Firefox? Please see <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/text.html>: it is labeled as
charset=US-ASCII but actually encoded in UTF-8 with some non-ASCII characters.
Firefox 30.0 and Chromium 34.0.1847.116 both behave like Emacs eww, and decode
it as UTF-8.

Again, I propose that the standard be changed to allow decoders to treat UTF-8
properly even if it's mislabeled as US-ASCII, since that's what browsers
actually do in some cases, and it's helpful behavior that should not be
prohibited. The argument that the behavior is "bad for interoperability" a weak
one: for a user, seeing text is more interoperable than seeing mojibake.

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