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Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

2003-09-19 06:41:40

* John Cowan wrote:
Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit:

Depends on the format. Formats should provide means to specify
the encoding, if they do not they are BAD, broken as designed.

Plain text is broken as designed?  Programming languages are broken
as designed?

If a processor is required to guess how to process instances of a
format, the format is clearly broken as designed, yes.