22661 2013-07-13 10:47:09 +0000 Meaning of raw UTF-16LE/BE 2013-07-23 23:16:48 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal Unsorted 20089 1 silviapfeiffer1 ian annevk ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin www-international contributor oldest_to_newest 90711 0 silviapfeiffer1 2013-07-13 10:47:09 +0000 Those terms are not defined in the referenced RFC and I don't follow what you mean't by them. Could you clarify? Thanks. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #20089 +++ http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/infrastructure.html#a-utf-16-encoding says: "The term a UTF-16 encoding refers to any variant of UTF-16: self-describing UTF-16 with a BOM, ambiguous UTF-16 without a BOM, raw UTF-16LE, and raw UTF-16BE. [RFC2781]" What is 'raw' UTF-16LE/LE ? Presumably, it's 'ambiguous UTF-16' without a BOM but with an encoding declaration in the transport layer? Actually 'self-describing' is not completely unambiguous either. Please clarify what these words mean. 90712 1 annevk 2013-07-13 12:21:57 +0000 We shouldn't need these terms given the Encoding Standard which we reference already. Seems confusing to also reference something else for utf-16. 91172 2 contributor 2013-07-23 23:16:48 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8081. Check-in comment: Closer integration with encoding.spec.whatwg.org http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8080&to=8081