Put URL into variable and textEncoding

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

 >> On 13 Feb 2018, at 11:56 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> something more sensible
 >
 > We already have:
 >
 > open file for “utf-8” text
 >
 > There was some discussion of implementing “file+<encoding>:/path
 > /to/file” style urls to avoid having to use binfile and textDecode
 > and manual line ending wrangling.
 >
 > Also if there is a BOM then the unicode encoding can and is worked
 > for file: urls and open file for text. It’s when there’s no BOM and
 > no explicit encoding specified that the engine defaults to legacy
 > native encodings.

More reasonable indeed.  With all the complicated examples floating 
around I'd forgotten about the "open file" addition.  Nice.

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