"Martin J. Duerst" wrote:
> I'm late to reply to this, but I think it is a very
> dangerous proposal. It has a well-known acronym:
> GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). The more data is
> exchanged between all kinds of components of the
> Internet and Web infrastructure without human invention,
> the higher the danger that it will be impossible
> to figure out where the data came from, what it
> was supposed to be, and where the error happened.
I recognize that this comes from the "HTML nightmare" experience
that the Web has been undergoing in the last few years. However,
I cannot agree that the appropriate thing for an editor or other
text-processing tool, on finding an encoding error, is simply
to refuse to process the text at all.
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