7380 2009-08-20 07:29:12 +0000 Suggest heuristic detection of UTF-8 2010-10-04 14:32:41 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#determining-the-character-encoding NE P2 normal --- 1 mjs ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 26552 0 mjs 2009-08-20 07:29:12 +0000 Step 6 of the encoding detection algorithm should specifically suggest the possibility of algorithmically detecting UTF-8. Here is some suggested wording from the I18N WG: "Note: The UTF-8 encoding has a highly detectable bit pattern. Documents that contain bytes > 0x7F which match the UTF-8 pattern are very likely to be UTF-8, while documents that do not match it definitely are not. While not full autodetection, it may be appropriate for a user-agent to search for this common encoding."