On Jan 13, 2004, at 6:01 PM, 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.
Wow, is there any software that actually does this? I hadn't
encountered it.
> In fact any aggregator that doesn't do something like this
> is doomed to fail -- *nobody's* feed has the encoding labelled
> properly. (Well, maybe not "nobody", but certainly not very many.)
On the contrary; the vast majority of them are correct. -Tim
