From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 12:04:46 CST
In <ylfzq01hpa.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, on 03/06/2003
at 10:19 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> said:
>By that argument, if we tell them to expect UTF-8, we're also lying
>to them. That argument says that the standard should tell people to
>expect random unlabelled 8-bit character sets.
No. It says that if they choose to flout the standard and send
non-ASCII data, the reader will be required to interpret the illegal
data as UTF-8 if they look like valid UTF-8. It does not say that
sending those data is permissible.
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