[whatwg] Charset meta sniffing and supported encodings that are not rough ASCII supersets
Darin Adler
darin at apple.com
Sat Jun 9 11:38:47 PDT 2007
On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> The spec probably needs to be made more specific about the case
> where the ASCII byte-based algorithm finds a supported encoding
> name but the encoding is not a rough ASCII superset.
>
> 23:46 < othermaciej> one quirk in Safari is that if there's a meta
> tag claiming
> the source is utf-16, we treat it as utf-8
> ...
> 23:48 < othermaciej> hsivonen: there is content that needs it
> ...
> 23:52 < othermaciej> hsivonen: I think we may treat any claimed
> unicode charset
> in a <meta> tag as utf-8
An example of a live site that needs this:
http://www.zingermans.com
-- Darin
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