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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:28:47 -0800
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, utf-8 was designed on purpose to be easily distinguishable from 
>>>other encodings so that you don't have to rely on every document 
>>>obeying a certain encoding.
>>>
>>
>>No, it wasn't.  It was designated on purpose to be ASCII-compatible,
>>substring-safe, and minimally stateful.
> 
> 
> For the record, my information stems from
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8#Rationale_behind_UTF-8.27s_mechanics
> 

That article is a bit confusing, as it mixes rationale with commentary.

	-hpa