[Bug 26618] Fix mappings of legacy single byte encoding test failures for consistency with browsers

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26618

Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org> ---
(In reply to Jungshik Shin from comment #9)
> If we test encoding as well, there'd be a lot more discrepancy between ICU
> and the encoding spec. For instance, ICU's single-byte tables for
> windows-12xx and windows-874 map the full-width ASCII block (U+FFxx) to the
> corresponding position 
> in [0x20 - 0x7E].  

I think that it would not be a bad thing if the Encoding spec explicitly
forbade mapping any codepoint in the ASCII block to any codepoint outside it,
in either direction. My gut reaction is that doing that with web content is a
security bug waiting to happen.

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Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2014 19:42:25 UTC