On 2017-03-13 18:54, Matthew A. Miller wrote:
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/me doffs hat
I like this change myself.
/me dons hat
As I recall, the table was removed mostly because the vast majority of
implementations did not support any encoding other than UTF-8, and no
one (that I recall) reported implementing the detection table.
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Well, if we allow UTF-16 and UTF-32 - even if we discourage their use -
we should say how to detect those...
Alternatively we could forbid them, but that would be a normative change
from RFC 7159.
Best regards, Julian