[whatwg] StringEncoding open issues

[Jonas Sicking]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
>>
>> >       - If encoding is "utf-16" and the first bytes match 0xFF 0xFE or
>> > 0xFE
>> >       0xFF then set current encoding to "utf-16" or "utf-16be"
>> > respectively and
>> >       advance the stream past the BOM. The current encoding is used
>> > until the
>> >       stream is reset.
>> >       - Otherwise, if the first bytes match 0xFF 0xFE, 0xFE 0xFF, or
>> > 0xEF
>> >       0xBB 0xBF then set current encoding to "utf-16", "utf-16be" or
>> > "utf-8"
>> >       respectively and advance the stream past the BOM. The current
>> > encoding is
>> >       used until the stream is reset.
>>
>> This doesn't sound right. The effect of the rules so far would be that
>> if you create a decoder and specify "utf-16" as encoding, and the
>> first bytes in the stream are 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF you'd silently switch to
>> "utf-8" decoding.
>
> I think the scope of the "otherwise" is unclear, and this is meant to be
> "otherwise (if encoding is not "utf-16")".

Ah, that would make sense. It effectively means "if encoding is not set".

/ Jonas