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

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

--- Comment #43 from Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> ---
(In reply to Paul Eggert from comment #42)
> > 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.

Probably your UTF-8 content was saved with BOM which has priority over
charset=us-ascii?

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Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:28:28 UTC