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Re: Do a better job at guessing unknown character sets

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 17, 2007, 19:56 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> I think this makes sense from a "the world is moving to utf-8" 
> standpoint, even if obviously some people might consider it a bit ugly 
> to do per-line "guessing".
> 
> Comments?

IMHO this is a good change. Encodings are such a hassle, and probably only because the inventors of ASCII just were narrow-minded enough not to care. With this patch, the hassle factor diminishes AFAICT.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: I think that in case of undesired behaviour, even if it is detected late in the game, filter-branch/rewrite-commits will help.

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