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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by ryandrake on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:13PM (#40205825)
Exactly. "Accepting and trying" is how a lot of popular software won their market. Look at HN's favorite media player, VLC. In the past, media player software were horrible, refusing to play all but the most tightly constrained set of allowed containers/codecs. I remember spending the early 2000s trying to get Windows Media Player to play MPEGs by downloading codec packs and trying to cast secret spells into the Windows Registry. Yuck! Then along comes VLC which accepts whatever you throw at it, and that software is basically everywhere now. You can throw line noise at VLC and it will try its best to play something!

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