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Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3



On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:16, Darren Salt wrote:

> I demand that Scott James Remnant may or may not have written...
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 08:47, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >> Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> wrote:
> >>> But your message didn't include a Content-Type header specifying that, so
> >>> it's likely to come through as garbage for most MUAs...
> >> Right, here it is again
> >> \xEF\xBB\xBF\xE8\xBE\xAD\xE6\xB5\xB7
> 
> > Now that's just the hand-printed bytecodes of raw UTF-8 :-)
> 
> > Now, if my by-hand Unicode isn't rusty, I make this out to be
> 
> > U+FEFF	ZERO WIDTH NO_BREAK SPACE
> > [...]
> 
> Slightly rusty: since that's at the start of the string, it's telling you
> which endianness is in use in the string.
> 
True for UCS-2 or UCS-4, but you can only write UTF-8 one way
(Big-Endian) deliberately so there wouldn't be this issue.

Scott
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