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clarificationStandard could be clearer
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opened on Aug 20, 2022

Currently a paragraph about it gives no idea what is "output encoding" and why it is needed:

encoding/encoding.bs

Lines 733 to 746 in 4f549cd

<h3 id=output-encodings>Output encodings</h3>
<p>To <dfn export>get an output encoding</dfn> from an <a for=/>encoding</a>
<var>encoding</var>, run these steps:
<ol>
<li><p>If <var>encoding</var> is <a>replacement</a> or <a>UTF-16BE/LE</a>, then return
<a>UTF-8</a>.
<li><p>Return <var>encoding</var>.
</ol>
<p class=note>The <a>get an output encoding</a> algorithm is useful for URL parsing and HTML
form submission, which both need exactly this.

It would be good to describe what it is, what problems it solves and where you should use it.

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