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Bug 15945 - rfc 2781, section 4.3 specifies the default utf-16 as big endian, not little endian.
Summary: rfc 2781, section 4.3 specifies the default utf-16 as big endian, not little ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-02-09 23:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-08-29 08:30 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-09 23:17:14 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#table-encoding-overrides
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#table-encoding-overrides

Comment:
rfc 2781, section 4.3 specifies the default utf-16 as big endian, not little
endian. 

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 16:07:37 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18046 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Yuhong Bao 2012-08-29 08:30:35 UTC 
"Note: The requirement to default UTF-16 to little-endian rather than big-endian is a willful violation of RFC 2781, motivated by a desire for compatibility with legacy content."