Re: WG: UTF-8 text files

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Wed Jun 08 2005 - 10:24:08 CDT

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    Jon Hanna wrote:

    > Still a rare case, but enough to demonstrate that heuristics cannot be
    > 100% accurate. More likely cases may occur with other encodings.
    >
    A heuristic that's 100% accurate is called an algorithm, not a
    heuristic. Heuristics are for when that's the best we've got.

    ~mark

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