Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit:

> No. I said that I consider formats that leave implementations to guess
> how to process instances of the format broken as designed. I did not
> suggest to fix them.

Okay, since this judgment has no real-world consequences I can live with it.

> And by the way, some formats you mention are binary
> and not text formats and could thus not make use of file system encoding
> information.

Which?  Programming languages, text markup languages, scripts, or
mbox-type message archives?

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