Dear Jailbreak Community

Post by rspeer » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 9:10 AM UTC

breser wrote: post #21

rspeer wrote: post #3

Chrome seems to detect the encoding of this page wrong -- find the deeply-buried "Encoding" menu and set it to UTF-8 for more readability.

Chrome (and Firefox for that matter) are doing what they should be. The default encoding for HTTP is ISO-8859-1 and the Content-Type header doesn't specify a charset, so that is what the browsers are displaying it as.

Well, like most things on the Web, they're not doing what the HTTP standard says, they're doing something related to what the standards say they should do but with some concessions to reality.

Look at "We donâ€™t believe itâ€™s right". There's no Euro sign in ISO-8859-1. The Euro symbol was not even dreamed up when ISO-8859-1 was standardized.

But there's a Euro sign -- retroactively -- in Windows-1252, and it's been a long-standing tradition among Web browsers to pretend ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 are equivalent even though in Unicode they clearly aren't. It's why you can write  and usually get the same ellipsis as ….

So you can forgive me for expecting another long-standing tradition, which is to auto-detect encodings that aren't specified. Maybe browsers have stopped doing that. It's a bit of a loss when it comes to UTF-8, a clear choice for an encoding to try by default in 2013.

Of course the page should ideally be written better, but that's a push and pull between HTML writers and browser developers that will never be over.

Post by schneidmaster » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

greenlakejake wrote: post #43

schneidmaster wrote: post #5

This is interesting. The jailbreak community is a weird place on the edge of free software- normally, "just open source it" is an easy answer to security concerns, but there are understandable reasons not to open-source exploits. However, the whole competition thing between evad3rs and saurik seems kind of strange. Honestly, I wish Apple would just get with the times and allow an appropriate degree of freedom on thei…

> Honestly, I wish Apple would just get with the times and allow an appropriate degree of freedom on their devices An appropriate degree of freedom is different for you and eight year old children or grandparents. The majority of iOS users have no use for the freedom jailbreakers desire and Apple is creating software for the majority of its customers.

I understand this, but there should at least be a way to access that freedom. I'm a developer; I'm going to hack and tweak my phone. That's not going to change. What can change is whether Apple makes me install a 3rd-party exploit or lets me flip a switch somewhere deep in my settings.

Re: Dear Jailbreak Community

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