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3205If you find a declaration while decoding as UTF-16, then ignore it. It can only be correct if it is not giving a different encoding, in which case it's not useful anyway. (credit: kp)2009-06-06 01:28
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    pass found that the encoding sniffing algorithm described in the
    earlier section failed to find the right encoding.</li>
 
+   <li>If the encoding that is already being used to interpret the
+   input stream is a UTF-16 encoding, then set the <span
+   title="concept-encoding-confidence">confidence</span> to
+   <i>certain</i> and abort these steps. The new encoding is ignored;
+   if it was anything but the same encoding, then it would be clearly
+   incorrect.</li>
+
    <li>If the new encoding is a UTF-16 encoding, change it to
    UTF-8.</li>

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