Simon, Is the relevant part of HTML sufficient to refer to? http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#utf-8
> What I can do is procrastinate until we agree that BlobBuilder is > deprecated, and this is now the problem of the Blob constructor. > Over > to you, Arun and Jonas. > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Eric U <er...@google.com> wrote: > > Thanks Glenn and Simon--I'll see what I can do. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Simon Pieters <sim...@opera.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:40:44 +0200, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> BlobBuilder.append(text) says: > >>> > >>>> Appends the supplied text to the current contents of the > >>>> BlobBuilder, > >>> > >>> writing it as UTF-8, converting newlines as specified in endings. > >>> > >>> It doesn't elaborate any further. The conversion from UTF-16 to > >>> UTF-8 > >>> needs > >>> to be defined, in particular for the edge case of invalid UTF-16 > >>> surrogates. If this is already defined somewhere, it isn't > >>> referenced. > >>> > >>> I suppose this would belong in "Common infrastructure", next to > >>> the > >>> existing > >>> section on UTF-8, not in FileAPI itself. > >> > >> > >> WebSocket send() throws SYNTAX_ERR if its argument contains > >> unpaired > >> surrogates. It would be nice to be consistent. > >> > >> -- > >> Simon Pieters > >> Opera Software > >> > > >
