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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:42:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote:
>  The sooner we replace the erroneous
>  “text is ASCII” in the common wisdom with “text is Unicode”, the
>  better.

I'd actually argue that it's better to replace the common wisdom with 
"text is binary data, and we should normally look at that text through 
Unicode eyes". A little less catchy, but more accurate ;)

-W
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