On Friday, May 26, 2017 at 10:01:18 AM UTC+3, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Think of XML files without the "encoding" attribute in the declaration or > > HTML files without the meta charset tag. > > Per spec, these must be treated as UTF-16 if there's a UTF-16 BOM and > as UTF-8 otherwise. It's highly inappropriate to run heuristic > detection for XML. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > https://hsivonen.fi/
Still, sometimes XML fragments come up and even if they are not 100% XML spec compliant i still have to process them. This includes encoding detection as well, when the XML declaration is missing from the fragments. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
