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http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#sync-warning [[ Let parsedURL be the result of parsing url with base. ]] Given the resolution in https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23822 I guess we should change XHR. (WebKit/Blink already use the document's encoding for XHR.)
If it's only Blink/WebKit, it seems given the resolution of the bug this depends on we should WONTFIX this as well.
That's OK. It's not clear to me what our story is for new APIs going forward but I guess we can decide that on a case-by-case basis. Or it will just be that Hixie APIs use the document's encoding and everything else uses utf-8. :-P
Well, why don't you bring this up at the next Blink F2F or some such? Maybe they're willing to take a stance here one way or another and everyone else can follow.