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That's a great guess, but my point is that it's a guess. It will sometimes be wrong, and when the guess is wrong you will have articles like the above written c
by throwaway09223 4y ago
That's a great guess, but my point is that it's a guess. It will sometimes be wrong, and when the guess is wrong you will have articles like the above written complaining about the fallout.
These types of errors are guaranteed specifically because of the policy of guessing and loose heuristics you're describing.
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoUnicode fixes it. It's why legacy encodings are unworkable.
- throwaway09223 4y agoUnicode absolutely does not fix the issue of not knowing the encoding of a legacy byte buffer with text in it.