Hi, Marco Costalba: > >Or, if you want to be super-flexible, just try to decode as UTF-8. > >Success? fine -- otherwise use whatever your application's default is > >set to, or your local encoding (which may of course also be UTF-8), or > >fall back to 8859-15. > > How it is possible to test for success? UTF-8 decoding does NOT always succeed. In fact, there is no other 8-bit encoding which decodes as valid UTF-8, given real-world text. > The codec could see everything decodable, but It's only from the > context, i.e. the user who reads, that it is possible to realize it's > the wrong codec. > True in general, but not with UTF-8 (or ASCII, for that matter ;-). -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - You can fool the people about many things, but only a fool would be foolish enough to fool the people about money. -- Italo Bombolini - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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