Hi all, Op woensdag 11 november 2009 18:19 schreef je: > >> 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.
I spoke about this to a couple of people and nobody knew a good reason for not autodetecting UTF-8, so I'm going to build in autodetection and resubmit the bundle. Reinier
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