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Re: Displaying characters in user's locale
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Displaying characters in user's locale |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:00:30 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:34:19 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> This depends on what files are out there with no encoding specified.
> >> Do you know how long makeinfo has output an encoding section? Is it
> >> still possible today that makeinfo could output a UTF-8 file with no
> >> encoding specified?
> >
> > It could be, with makeinfo 4.13, I think.
> >
> > In any case, UTF-8 covers ASCII, so I think it is safe these days.
> >
> What if a file is not in UTF-8 and doesn't specify its encoding? Is it
> likely, for example, that there are many files in ISO-8859-1 which
> don't specify their encoding?
That could happen, yes. But I don't see any bad outcome for that with
the rest of your code in place. Do you?
The way I see it, iconv will report an error, and you punt and let the
original characters hit the glass, right?
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Gavin Smith, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Gavin Smith, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Gavin Smith, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Per Bothner, 2014/02/01
Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Reinhard Kotucha, 2014/02/02
Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Gavin Smith, 2014/02/01
Re: Displaying characters in user's locale, Gavin Smith, 2014/02/02