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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