Matěj Cepl matej at ceplovi.cz
Fri Jan 10 15:28:22 CET 2014

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On 2014-01-10, 12:19 GMT, you wrote:
> Using the 'latin-1' to mean unknown encoding can easily result
> in Mojibake (unreadable text) entering your application with
> dangerous effects on your other text data.
>
> E.g. "Marc-André" read using 'latin-1' if the string itself
> is encoded as UTF-8 will give you "Marc-André" in your
> application. (Yes, I see that a lot in applications
> and websites I use ;-))

I am afraid that for most 'latin-1' is just another attempt to 
make Unicode complexity go away and the way how to ignore it.

Matěj

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