>if you cannot handle UTF-8 anywhere anything approaching text could be, your program is malformed and should be deprecated and removed. I was referring to thi

>if you cannot handle UTF-8 anywhere anything approaching text could be, your program is malformed and should be deprecated and removed. I was referring to this. Don't get me wrong, I also would love to make sweeping changes to many things in computing. I still think it is perfectly valid to impose reasonable limitations on input even if the program could theoretically handle it - it prevents all kinds of problems at the very root (like allocating disproportionate amounts of resources, infinite timeouts, etc).