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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by n_plus_1_acc on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @03:13AM (#40208092)
Probably because most websites now send a correct encoding header or meta Tag, so the user changing can only make it wrong. (Assuming no encoding header is wrong, which happens in reality)
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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by layer8 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:39AM (#40209884)
It does happen a lot that old text content in non-UTF-8 encoding is mistakenly served explicitly marked as UTF-8. It is precisely in such circumstances that the Repair Text option is useful.
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