[whatwg] [encoding] utf-16

[Henri Sivonen]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
> And why should there be UTF-16 sniffing?

The reason why Gecko detects BOMless Basic Latin-only UTF-16
regardless of the heuristic detector mode is
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631751

It's quite possible that Firefox could have gotten away with not
having this behavior.

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