Re: [whatwg] Internal character encoding declaration, Drop UTF-32, and UTF and BOM terminology

2007-06-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote: I don't think forbidding BOCU-1 is a good idea. If there is ever a proper specification written of it, it could be very useful as a compression format for documents. BOCU-1 has been used for security attacks. It's on the no fly list. Do

Re: [whatwg] Internal character encoding declaration, Drop UTF-32, and UTF and BOM terminology

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Karlsson
Ian Hickson: I don't think forbidding BOCU-1 is a good idea. If there is ever a proper specification written of it, it could be very useful as a compression format for documents. BOCU-1 has been used for security attacks. It's on the no fly list. Do you have any references on that, or are

Re: [whatwg] Internal character encoding declaration, Drop UTF-32, and UTF and BOM terminology

2007-06-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: I think allowing in-place decoder change (when feasible) would be good for performance. Done. I think it would be beneficial to additionally stipulate that 1. The meta element-based character encoding information declaration is