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Re:Problems with CSVs by mnarayan01 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:35PM (#13266395)
Using the "μ" in a header (e.g. Content-Type) is at least historically compliant as it exists in ISO-8859-1...but doing so needlessly would be insane.
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Re:Problems with CSVs by pjc50 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:55PM (#13266531)
Rather like the space in "Program Files", the "μ" would serve the function of making sure that the caller has at least some working UTF-8.
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Re:Problems with CSVs by mnarayan01 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:21PM (#13266711)
AFAIK using the UTF-8 encoding of "μ" would not be standard compliant.
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