Re: [Lynx-dev] Unicode-marking, &c

[Thorsten Glaser]

David Woolley dixit:

> may use heuristics.

Interestingly enough, the BOM is actually a _standardised_ heuristics.

If it begins with a {UTF-8,UCS-[24][BL]E} BOM, and the subsequent
text does not contain any encoding errors, consider it of that
encoding.

//mirabilos
-- 
“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
 seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
 seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
        -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2