> Which MIME type did you use in the response? BOM sniffing in XML is
> non-normative IIRC. For other types, see below.
>

It's text/plain - seems I definitely need one test with an XML response
too.. and one with JSON.


>
> [[
> If charset is null, set charset to utf-8.
>
> Return the result of running decode on byte stream bytes using fallback
> encoding charset.
> ]]
>

Heh, I stopped reading here.. Assuming that "using fallback encoding
charset" would actually decode the data per that charset..


> https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#decode
>
> [[
> For each of the rows in the table below, starting with the first one and
> going down, if the first bytes of buffer match all the bytes given in the
> first column, then set encoding to the encoding given in the cell in the
> second column of that row and set BOM seen flag.
> ]]
>
> This step honors the BOM. The fallback encoding is ignored.


That's cool because it means the test is correct as-is. Somewhat less cool
because it means I need to report another bug..
-Hallvord

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