ISSUE-77: HTTP and defaulting to UTF-16LE

HTTP and defaulting to UTF-16LE

State:

CLOSED

Product:

html

Raised by:

Richard Ishida

Opened on:

2011-07-22

Description:

8.2.2.2 Character encodings
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/parsing.html#character-encodings-0

"When a user agent is to use the UTF-16 encoding but no BOM has been found, user agents must default to UTF-16LE."

If the HTTP header declares the file to be UTF-16BE, which I believe it can, and in which case a BOM should *not* be used, then I think that this would not be true. If the HTTP header declares the file to be UTF-16, then there must be a BOM, so I assume that this is a recovery mechanism if someone does declare UTF-16 in HTTP but omits the BOM. I'd think that some kind of error message would be in order though.

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3. [Bug 13396] i18n-ISSUE-77: HTTP and defaulting to UTF-16LE (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-11-18)
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8. [Bug 13396] i18n-ISSUE-77: HTTP and defaulting to UTF-16LE (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-07-28)
9. [Bug 13396] New: i18n-ISSUE-77: HTTP and defaulting to UTF-16LE (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-07-27)
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14. I18N-ISSUE-77: HTTP and defaulting to UTF-16LE [HTML5-prep] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-07-22)

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