[whatwg] Is EBCDIC support needed for not breaking the Web?

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Sun Jun 1 07:25:05 PDT 2008


* Henri Sivonen wrote:
>This makes me wonder: Do the top browsers support any EBCDIC-based  
>encodings but just without exposing them in the UI? If not, can there  
>be any notable EBCDIC-based Web content?

Internet Explorer should support any character encoding Windows supports
(see the advanced tab in `control International`), which includes many
EBCDIC encodings. See eg. http://www.websitedev.de/temp/ebcdic-cp-us.txt
for an example. It seems to me www-international at w3.org would have been
a better place to ask your questions than the mailing lists you picked.
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