Re: Why Nothing Ever Goes Away

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 09:11:52 -0700

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Browsers dropping UTF-7 support was a major inconvenience.

Especially when the real problem with cross-site scripting was
*auto-detection* of UTF-7. Requiring users to override the encoding and
select UTF-7 manually would have solved most problems. Dropping UTF-7
entirely was not necessary.

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