Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2009/7/11 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>> At Qwaq, we've changed our utf8ToSqueak version to assume that the input is
>> in Latin-1 when "invalid input" is encountered. That's because we've never
>> found a situation where one wouldn't be better off to silently accept the
>> input (regardless of whether it's actually UTF-8, Latin-1 or whatever else)
>> instead of blowing up. I wonder what people think about that?
> 
> It is just a way of masking bugs. At that point the only thing you
> know is that the input is not utf-8. Coming up with some random
> encoding is likely to produce corrupted data. For Seaside this would
> be horrible.

Fair enough, that's why I'm asking ;-) But I'm curious, have you *ever* 
actually encountered the situation where the error about "invalid utf8 
input" has helped you? We haven't (not once) which is what led us to 
make that change.

Cheers,
   - Andreas