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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: textfiles</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/textfiles.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-10-08T12:27:10+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Quoting Rick Jelliffe</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/8/text/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-10-08T12:27:10+00:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T12:27:10+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/8/text/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/10/text_encodings_if_we_know_the.html"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The larger question is why on earth, in 2007 and ten years after XML came out, we are still using text files that don't label their encoding?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/10/text_encodings_if_we_know_the.html"&gt;Rick Jelliffe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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