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 ;)
-W
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