[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 66185] Sniff UTF-8 instead of defaulting to WINDOWS-1252 (or other locale defaults)

Sun Aug 14 12:07:37 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66185

Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua at xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #5 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua at xn--mlform-iua.no>  2011-08-14 12:07:37 PST ---
The  encoding sniffing algorithm of HTML5 is, btw, not created for fun. What kind of benefit are you looking for? How do you want it demonstrated?

Some benefits:

1) Better interoperability with XML, whose default is UTF-8.
2) Better interoperability with the oither, dominating Web browsers, which do sniff.
3) Better results for the user, as it is difficult to guess UTF-8 unless it is UTF-8.
4) UTF-8 is the trend and the goal 

What more do you need to see demonstrated? What makes you in doubt about the benefits?

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