> Nice to hear from you.
Lurking still, just not participating ;-)
>> No. There's no need to tag.
>>
>> UTF-8 can be detected automatically with 100% certainty in practice. If
>> a string correctly decodes as UTF-8, then it's most certainly UTF-8.
> Are you saying that the probability of funny characters occurring only
> within UTF-8 compatible sequences like 110xxxxx 10xxxxx is just so
> absurdly low (especially in practice) that we can get away with
> autodetection?
I additionally claim that it never happens in a text written in
a natural language.
Of course, if you use Darcs patch logs to store arbitrary binary data,
that's your problem.
Juliusz
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