Simon Willison’s Weblog

8th October 2007

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?

— Rick Jelliffe

Posted 8th October 2007 at 12:27 pm

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This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 8th October 2007.

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