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Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Tue, 03 July 2007 15:29 UTC

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To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem
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Peter Constable scripsit:

> > the breakage to processors is no worse than adding new
> > fields (nor are there that many fully-conformant
> > processors to be fixed).
> 
> I'm inclined to agree, but am waiting to see if anyone makes a strong counterargument.

Nobody actually knows how many fully conformant processors there are.


I still think the email argument is the compelling one.  We *will*
have corruption no matter what.

-- 
Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so,         John Cowan
is a tax on income.  --Lord Macnaghten (1901)           cowan@ccil.org


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