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[Michel Fortin]

Le 2005-11-15 à 04:12, A. Pagaltzis a écrit :


>> and since it's not possible to detect the character encoding in

>> a plain text file ...

>

> It is, using a BOM character.


Not all UTF-8 files have a BOM, in fact most of them on my computer  
don't have it. And I wouldn't count snippets of text from a content  
management system to add a BOM either.

Event if UTF-8 was detectable, it would make a feature (the bullet)  
that work sometime and don't work at other times. Many people don't  
have a clue about what is character encoding, so when it won't work  
on their weblog they will have no idea why and will get frustrated or  
complain about a "bug".


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/