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Gerard Bouchar commented on TIKA-2673:
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[This blog post by the whatwg on character
encodings|https://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding] is an
interesting read that explains the gist of the specification and some of the
reasons motivating it.
[These
tests|https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repository/html5/the-input-byte-stream/results-basics]
show how well browsers respect the specification.
> HtmlEncodingDetector doesn't follow the specification
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> Key: TIKA-2673
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2673
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Gerard Bouchar
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HtmlEncodingDetectorTest.java
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> This bug is linked to TIKA-2671, but does not concern metadata, but rather
> the bytes-based detection itself.
> While reading the specification, I collected a list of sample cases where
> HtmlEncodingDetector differs from the specification, and thus fails at
> detecting the right charset.
> I am attaching the test cases to this issue:
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