Bug 159651 - Stop supporting character sets CESU-8, EBCDIC, and UTF-32
Summary: Stop supporting character sets CESU-8, EBCDIC, and UTF-32
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2016-07-11 15:57 PDT by John Wilander
Modified: 2016-08-18 15:16 PDT (History)
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Description John Wilander 2016-07-11 15:57:43 PDT
From the HTML spec:
"The above prohibits supporting, for example, CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1, SCSU, EBCDIC, and UTF-32."
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#character-encodings
Comment 1 Myles C. Maxfield 2016-08-18 15:12:27 PDT
Another one?
Comment 2 John Wilander 2016-08-18 15:16:58 PDT
(In reply to comment #1)
> Another one?

Yes. It was filed as I was patching the other one since we didn't want to do it all in one go.

Darin and Alexey both think we need to rework towards a whitelist instead of a blacklist.