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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by scrollaway on Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:03PM (#11935692)
Why is this still the case? UTF8 is dominant now, wouldn't it make more sense to assume UTF8?
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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by niftich on Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:12PM (#11935711)
The older the site, the less likely it is that it will have been updated. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that newer sites will either declare UTF-8, or can be modified to declare UTF-8, while old sites stay the way they always were, pre-UTF-8.

Keeping the backwards-compatibility heuristic the same makes sense.

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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:37AM (#11944962)
Old sites lacked encoding declarations, and old browsers (e.g. early versions of IE) didn't support them.

Sites that want UTF-8 can ask for it.

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