Code review comment for lp:~jtv/wikkid/bug-614286
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| Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) wrote | # |
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> I wonder if, for sanity's sake, we should just encode all strings as UTF-8. I
> can't think of any place where we'd want just ascii.
It's definitely a better *default* choice than ASCII, which is what's implicitly used now. Any text that isn't UTF-8 is exceedingly unlikely to pass a simple decoding check. So defaulting to UTF-8 passes more, gives access to full unicode, and yet isn't likely to lead to misinterpretation of data.
Jeroen