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Subject: Re: A proposal to handle file encodings
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:09:40 +0100
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Am 24.11.2012 00:11, schrieb Peter J. Holzer:
> On 2012-11-23 18:21, Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> Roedy Green schrieb:
>>> The HTML encoding is incompetent. You can't read it without knowing
>>> the encoding.
> 
> Not true in practice. Almost all encodings used in the real world are
> some superset of ASCII, and you only need to recognize ASCII characters
> to find the relevant meta tag.

With the exception of UTF-16LE/BE for example.
Or is a BOM mandatory for UTF-16? The downside of BOMs is that they
break feature like includes. Many include mechanism just copy the
bytestream, this BOMs appear in the middle of the page.


Regards,
  Sven