[whatwg] Serialising HTML to Files in Non-Unicode Encodings

[Lachlan Hunt]

Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> Any serializer that needs an exotic character set should also have a way of
> retrieving the character set.  This character set need not be specified
> within the fragment stored because it would probably be the same for many
> fragments.  The serializer should rather store it elsewhere without
> modifying the original HTML text: as a record attribute, a column property,
> an optional parameter or built-in configuration parameter.

That doesn't work if the serialiser is saving it as a file that is 
intended to be viewed from the local file system, or put onto a server 
where the author can't (or doesn't know how to) configure the 
Content-Type header properly.  It depends entirely on the use case and 
environment for which the serialiser is designed and configured.

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Lachlan Hunt
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