My guess is that the reality is "98% of websites are valid UTF-8 documents". A l...

qbane on May 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings

My guess is that the reality is "98% of websites are valid UTF-8 documents". A large portions contain only ASCIIs so they happen to be, just indistinguishable with truly UTF8 encoded ones until they break.