[whatwg] Text Encoding used to decode appcache manifest

[Julian Reschke]

Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
> 
> 20.03.2009, в 1:43, Anne van Kesteren написал(а):
> 
>> Can we get away with not following Content-Type at all? As we do for 
>> text/event-stream and text/cache-manifest. Both which simply require 
>> UTF-8.
> 
> 
> Good point - but to the contrary, I think that charset from Content-Type 
> should be always honored, adding special cases is an unnecessary 
> complication.

Yep.

> Formally, a proxy can re-encode any text/* resource and expect the 
> client to honor Content-Type charset over <meta> and built-in 
> preconceptions, although I think that such proxies are extremely rare in 
> this millennium.

An easy way to avoid this issue is not to use a text/* content type.

BR, Julian