Rainer Pruy wrote:
If already being unpolite why not in a way that will cause major improvement on the situation by forcing users to stating encoding in any case
Yes, as we talk about it, this becomes my personal favorite. I guess a default value as originally proposed is only of value if it works for a majority, i.e. "convention over configuration" only works if one has a reasonable convention. However, Latin-1 is admittedly not international enough to serve this, UTF-8 might have been (but again, if third of the world uses Big5, GBK etc. that's questionable, too). Requiring an explicit encoding in all cases would have been the most consequent approach because it would have broken for everybody and as such would have taught everybody to specify the encoding. It would have hurt once but then never again. Maybe in the next century. Benjamin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
