On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: >> I didn't mean a prescan. I meant proceeding with the real parse and >> switching decoders in midstream. This would have the complication of >> also having to change the encoding the document object reports to >> JavaScript in some cases. > > On IRC (#whatwg) zcorpan pointed out this would break URLs where entities > are used to encode non-ASCII code points in the query component.
Good point. So it's not worthwhile to add magic here. It's better that authors declare that they are using UTF-8. -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
