Anne, > On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:18:35 +0100, Arun Ranganathan > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think per https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15359 > >> we > >> want to let the BOM checking happen before the other > >> considerations. > > > > Really? Does that mean, favoring BOM checking over the Blob's type > > attribute and the optional encoding parameter of the readAsText() > > method? Why exactly? > > Because the BOM is more authoritative. I suppose we could make the > encoding argument be a hard override, but BOM should definitely > override > Blob.type.
OK, I agree that BOM considerations should override the Charset Parameter (if any) in Blob.type. I've made such a change. http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ -- A*
