[whatwg] Internal character encoding declaration, Drop UTF-32, and UTF and BOM terminology
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sun Jun 24 23:29:44 PDT 2007
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think forbidding BOCU-1 is a good idea. If there is ever a
> >> proper specification written of it, it could be very useful as a
> >> compression format for documents.
> >
> > BOCU-1 has been used for security attacks. It's on the "no fly" list.
>
> Do you have any references on that, or are you thinking about SCSU
> (which suffers from the problem of having several valid compressions for
> each string)?
Not off-hand. I'm not confusing it with SCSU, which is also disallowed.
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