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Bug 16219 - Reference WebIDL Unicode conversion as a UTF-8 preprocessor
Summary: Reference WebIDL Unicode conversion as a UTF-8 preprocessor
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Encoding (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+encodingspec
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Reported: 2012-03-03 15:07 UTC by Glenn Maynard
Modified: 2012-10-30 17:13 UTC (History)
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Description Glenn Maynard 2012-03-03 15:07:46 UTC 
> Pre-processing is required to make an encoder not fail

This should mention (non-normatively) http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#dfn-obtain-unicode as the preprocessor that most specs should use.
Comment 1 Anne 2012-10-11 15:19:16 UTC 
The specification no longer has this wording, but the suggestion might still make sense I suppose. Where do you think we should write this? In the encode/decode section?
Comment 2 Glenn Maynard 2012-10-13 18:19:21 UTC 
That makes sense, maybe in the note at the top.  I guess this is actually about the conversion from DOMString to a series of codepoints, not preprocessing.