Re: FYI: Google blog on Unicode

From: Andreas Prilop (prilop4321@trashmail.net)
Date: Mon Feb 08 2010 - 11:40:12 CST

  • Next message: Mark Davis ☕: "Re: FYI: Google blog on Unicode"

    On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Mark Davis wrote upside-down:

    > It is encodings determined by a detection algorithm.

    This is so stupid!

    The results can be seen here:
     http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pl.test/msg/1fa7fa753aad46a2

    Special characters are often messed up in groups.google
    because your stupid algorithm takes ISO-8859-1 when the
    message is actually ISO-8859-2 or ISO-8859-15 or whatever.

     http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pl.test/msg/359af83289a00e8e

    > The declarations for encodings (and language)
    > are far too unreliable to be depended on.

    Unreliable is a guy who doesn't even know how to quote.



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