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		mnarayan01 on Dec 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems with CSVs Using the "μ" in a header (e.g. Content-Type) is at least historically compliant as it exists in ISO-8859-1...but doing so needlessly would be insane.

pjc50 on Dec 27, 2016 [–]

Rather like the space in "Program Files", the "μ" would serve the function of making sure that the caller has at least some working UTF-8.

mnarayan01 on Dec 27, 2016 | [–]

AFAIK using the UTF-8 encoding of "μ" would not be standard compliant.

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