Well known type T status bit 7

[RobChaferDID]

In https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/#text-record

Regarding the status byte, it says

"If bit 7 if set, means the payload is encoded in UTF-8, otherwise in UTF-16."

Is this correct? If I set bit 7 and followed by (single byte) Latin letters I get Chinese characters read by my phone (and TagInfo). If I reset bit 7 it reads as Latin characters.

[beaufortfrancois]

I think you're right, the WebNFC spec should be updated to reflect NFC spec:

FYI here's the Chromium code:

        // According to NFCForum-TS-RTD_Text_1.0 specification, section 3.2.1 Syntax.
        // First byte of the payload is status byte, defined in Table 3: Status Byte Encodings.
        // 0-5: lang code length
        // 6  : must be zero
        // 7  : 0 - text is in UTF-8 encoding, 1 - text is in UTF-16 encoding.
        nfcRecord.encoding = (text[0] & (1 << 7)) == 0 ? ENCODING_UTF8 : ENCODING_UTF16;

[beaufortfrancois]

I've opened #661 to fix this.

[RobChaferDID]

Excellent, I can stop worrying my writer was wrong :)