> I'm not going to waste time proactively safeguarding against a what-if The article doesn't say that you should. It clearly states that for many cases, the in

> I'm not going to waste time proactively safeguarding against a what-if The article doesn't say that you should. It clearly states that for many cases, the input format is known or explicitly stated in the input headers. The article talks about cases where the input files are in an unknown input format. Even then, it states: "Perhaps there is a case to be made that csvbase's auto-detection should be a more explicit user interface action than a pre-selected combo-box." But for the case where the requirements call for heuristics, the article then talks about how that can be done. > at that point I'm writing an adapter to convert into UTF-8 JIT in front of my service. And at that point you might need the advice in the article, right?