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   Re: [xml-dev] Postel's law, exceptions

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Julian Reschke wrote:
> Joe English wrote:
> > True, but the aggregator as a whole might still accept it --
> > possibly by noticing that the encoding is mislabelled and
> > munging the data into proper UTF-8 before passing it to the
> > parser.
>
> So how do you do it reliably.

I don't :-)  I just make sure that whatever comes *out* of
the fetch-from-the-web part of the pipeline is turned into
legal UTF-8 before passing it downstream to the next part of the
pipeline.  If characters get misinterpreted, so be it;
it's only a feed reader, not a critical application.



--Joe English

  jenglish@flightlab.com




 

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