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Okay, getting everyone on a single, encompassing character set/encoding is
pretty much a pipe dream. But why can't tools at least communicate what
charset they're using?
I'm used to getting web paged that misreport their charsets. When I read
things like "I m sure it s ok", I can generally tell w3m, "Ignore what you
were told; this page is in CP1254." This doesn't work if the content was
written in CP1254 but the publishing tool turned those 0x92 apostrophes
into ’ HTML entities, which is just wrong.
This isn't really a rant directed at any one thing in particular. I just
wish all this stuff with character sets happened transparently and that I
wouldn't have to have learned what little I do know about the whole
process. Like so many things, it should just _work_.
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...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/
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mated pair of black dragons.
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