Re: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 11:35:38 EDT

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On 29/09/2003 07:27, Francois Yergeau wrote:

> ...
>
>It takes large amounts of tricky code to reliably parse real-life HTML. It
>is unreasonable to expect servers, which have no business parsing HTML, to
>contain this code. ...
>
Agreed. But if they don't parse the HTML they don't know what the
content of the document is and so they have no business to mess around
with that content by re-encoding it.

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