[whatwg] [encoding] utf-16

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Tue Dec 27 18:38:53 PST 2011


On 12/27/11 9:20 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>> I think http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/encoding/raw-file/tip/Overview.html should
> follow Trident/WebKit. Specifically: utf-16 defaults to utf-16le in
> absence of a BOM.

One interesting question here:  Does this apply to web-facing things 
only, or also to MUAs?  In my experience charset behavior for the two 
might well differ....

-Boris



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