Re:HEAD – A guide to <head> elements
by account42 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:54AM
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Then concatenating to valid Unicode documents would no longer be valid Unicode. That is bad.
And ASCII text would no longer be a valid UTF-8 encoded Unicode document. That is bad.
And even when everything has finally switched to UTF-8 every tool ever will still need to handle the BOM. That is bad.
Guessing between valid UTF-8 and Latin-1 is only ever ambiguous when there are multiple non-ASCII characters in a row and all those sequences are made up of a lead byte with the correct number of trailing bytes. How often is that a problem for you in practice?
Guessing between valid UTF-8 and Latin-1 is only ever ambiguous when there are multiple non-ASCII characters in a row and all those sequences are made up of a lead byte with the correct number of trailing bytes. How often is that a problem for you in practice?