In <20030116213605(_dot_)023d303d(_dot_)moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:
As for untagged encodings: There can be only one winner in the end
I do not share your faith that both encodings won't be widely used, or that
they will converge to utf-8 within our lifetimes.
but if both encodings do appear without tagging, and the difference can
reliably be determined by heuristics, I do have faith that vendors will
implement those heuristics.
It has been reported that Mozilla already implements a suitable heuristic,
as least so far as being able to spot and act upon UTF-8 (I don't think it
claims to be able to distinguish the Chinese stuff from other non-UTF-8).
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