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> This is the inevitable result of the folly of trying to guess a file's encoding.

I'd say just: "This is the inevitable result of the folly of trying to guess." Guessing without confirmation request has no place in system libraries, nor in any "serious" (read: money-related) application.

Guessing is OK for providing nice defaults that work most of the time, but the user should have the final word.




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