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On 17.11.13 15:07, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> ASCII-ism is the soil in which dangerous bugs keep many things
>> from working.(*)
>
> On the contrary, it is a reasonable precaution against sloppy OSes (Linux,
> Windows) incapable to handle encoding safely [*]. The OP just ran into
> that. If he followed the advise he would never have any problems of this
> kind.

> -------
> * Preventing a file encoded as X, being read and written as if it were
> encoded as Y.

Precaution? ASCII could just as well be EBDCI. When the OS's programming
interface does not suggest studying the file type, then the best
thing one can do reading a text file is to rely on the data---UTF-NN has
a BOM, which is better than nothing, and certainly is better than the
any 7bit (or 8bit) ambiguities.

It is unfortunate that 7bit engineers can't swallow their pride
and use extended files attributes available with all semi-modern
and modern file systems and archive formats.