On 08/07/2012 07:51 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
I don't mind supporting *decoding* from basically any encoding that Anne's spec enumerates. I don't see a downside with that since I suspect most implementations will just call into a generic decoding backend anyway, and so supporting the same set of encodings as for other parts of the platform should be relatively easy.
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However I think we should consider restricting support to a smaller set of encodings for while *encoding*. There should be little reason for people today to produce text in non-utf formats. We might even be able to get away with only supporting UTF8, though I wouldn't be surprised if there are reasonably modern file formats which use utf16.
FWIW, I agree with the decode-from-all-platform-encodings encode-to-utf[8|16] position.
