Mark Shannon mark at hotpy.org
Thu Jan 9 10:01:27 CET 2014

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On 09/01/14 00:07, Ben Finney wrote:
> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:
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>> Believe it or not, sometimes you really don't care about encodings.
>> Sometimes you just want to parse text files.
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> Files don't contain text, they contain bytes. Bytes only become text
> when filtered through the correct encoding.
>
I'm glad someone pointed this out.

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