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Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> writes:

> 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 ;)

No, that's inaccurate. A sequence of bytes is binary data. Unicode is
not binary data.

There are encodings which map Unicode to a sequence of bytes, but text is
not binary data.

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