The point is, certain text, especially shift-JIS and the various EUC encodings can look exactly like an 8 bit "extended ASCII" when its in fact a variable width 8-16bit encoding.
Its bad advice that leads to corruption.
If you already know the encoding, then OP's advice is useless, if you don't but suspect its an 8 bit extended ASCII encoding, it might not be, because the aforementioned look exactly like an 8bit encoding.
Its bad advice that leads to corruption.
If you already know the encoding, then OP's advice is useless, if you don't but suspect its an 8 bit extended ASCII encoding, it might not be, because the aforementioned look exactly like an 8bit encoding.