Re: Do a better job at guessing unknown character sets

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Hi,

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I think this makes sense from a "the world is moving to utf-8" 
> standpoint, even if obviously some people might consider it a bit ugly 
> to do per-line "guessing".
> 
> Comments?

IMHO this is a good change.  Encodings are such a hassle, and probably 
only because the inventors of ASCII just were narrow-minded enough not to 
care.  With this patch, the hassle factor diminishes AFAICT.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: I think that in case of undesired behaviour, even if it is detected 
late in the game, filter-branch/rewrite-commits will help.

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