[whatwg] StringEncoding: Allowed encodings for TextEncoder

[Joshua Bell]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:48 AM, James Graham <jgraham at opera.com> wrote:

> On 08/07/2012 07:51 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
>  I don't mind supporting *decoding* from basically any encoding that
>> Anne's spec enumerates. I don't see a downside with that since I
>> suspect most implementations will just call into a generic decoding
>> backend anyway, and so supporting the same set of encodings as for
>> other parts of the platform should be relatively easy.
>>
>
> [...]
>
>
>  However I think we should consider restricting support to a smaller
>> set of encodings for while *encoding*. There should be little reason
>> for people today to produce text in non-utf formats. We might even be
>> able to get away with only supporting UTF8, though I wouldn't be
>> surprised if there are reasonably modern file formats which use utf16.
>>
>
> FWIW, I agree with the decode-from-all-platform-**encodings
> encode-to-utf[8|16] position.
>

Any disagreement on limiting the supported encodings to utf-8, utf-16, and
utf-16be, while permitting decoding of all encodings in the Encoding spec?

(This eliminates the "what to do on encoding error" issue nicely, still
need to resolve the BOM issue though.)