Encoding Rules Not Accurate?

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Encoding Rules Not Accurate? #12

Closed linuxwolf closed 6 years ago

linuxwolf commented 7 years ago

The charset and encoding instructions that carry over from RFC 4329 may not be correct.

At least for HTML-based agents, the following is relevant:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#prepare-a-script (step 21)
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#fetch-a-classic-script (step 6,7)
https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#decode (step 4)

Reconciling the above rules with the instructions from RFC 4329 may be needed.

bmeck commented 7 years ago

@linuxwolf given that the Module encoding behavior of browsers appear to always be UTF8 and thus differ from Script; I would suggest that we just note that encoding rules expect to be handled by the environment and give an informative link to HTML spec.

bmeck commented 6 years ago

matching https://github.com/bmeck/I-D/issues/2#issuecomment-322694349 I have made encoding host dependent due to differences in BOM, charset, and removal of interpreter directives.