The larger question is why on earth, in 2007 and ten years after XML came out, we are still using text files that don’t label their encoding?
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The larger question is why on earth, in 2007 and ten years after XML came out, we are still using text files that don’t label their encoding?
Because of the awful maxim:
"Be liberal with what you accept and strict with what you produce"
It's ignored by the nitwits who leave out encoding, and followed diligently by the coders who use that output.
Joe Grossberg - 8th October 2007 16:47 - #
Because boiling the ocean takes a long damn time. Any format without extensibility hooks is destined to have this sort of problem.
Jeremy Dunck - 8th October 2007 17:18 - #