On Jun 2, 2008, at 04:27, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
Firefox and Opera being able get away with not supporting EBCDIC
flavors suggests that EBCDIC-based encodings cannot be particularly
Web-relevant. Even if saying that browsers MUST NOT support them
might end up being a dead letter, it seems that it would be
feasible to say that browsers SHOULD NOT support them or at least
MUST NOT let a heuristic detector guess EBCDIC (for security
reasons).
Gecko does support UTF-7 and will continue to do so because UTF-7 is
still in use as a character set for mail encoding and multi-part
MIME documents.
Does/will Gecko support UTF-7 as a possible heuristic detector guess
on the Web/HTTP side?
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Henri Sivonen
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