[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 51035] UCS2 encoding aliases should be defaulted to Big Endian

Thu Dec 16 10:41:16 PST 2010

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51035

--- Comment #38 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2010-12-16 10:41:15 PST ---
The currently preferred way to resolve such differences is via standardization in HTML5. In fact, HTML5 already sides with IE/WebKit:

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When a user agent is to use the UTF-16 encoding but no BOM has been found, user agents must default to UTF-16LE.

Note: The requirement to default UTF-16 to LE rather than BE is a willful violation of RFC 2781, motivated by a desire for compatibility with legacy content. [RFC2781]
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The tests added here are very good, and I suggest landing those. But it doesn't seem like we should be changing behavior.

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