[whatwg] IBM864 mapping of Encoding Standard

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Mon Apr 23 23:49:34 PDT 2012


On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:31:57 +0200, Makoto Kato <m_kato at ga2.so-net.ne.jp>  
wrote:
> Except to OS/2 and AIX, I think that this encoding is unnecessary since  
> most browsers aren't supported.  If you only add IBM864 and IBM866 to  
> this spec as legacy encoding, you should add all encodings that Gecko  
> supports due to ambiguous.

That could work too. Currently 864 is not supported by Opera and 866 is  
not supported by Chrome. As far as I know the other IBM encodings have  
less support. I suppose we should look at content to see how often they  
are still used on pages with bytes greater than 0x7F.


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