[whatwg] Default encoding to UTF-8?

[Henri Sivonen]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
>> I didn't mean a prescan.  I meant proceeding with the real parse and
>> switching decoders in midstream. This would have the complication of
>> also having to change the encoding the document object reports to
>> JavaScript in some cases.
>
> On IRC (#whatwg) zcorpan pointed out this would break URLs where entities
> are used to encode non-ASCII code points in the query component.

Good point.  So it's not worthwhile to add magic here.  It's better
that authors declare that they are using UTF-8.

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Henri Sivonen
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