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Re: Displaying characters in user's locale
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: Displaying characters in user's locale |
Date: |
Sat, 1 Feb 2014 17:07:16 +0000 |
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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?
What if a sequence of bytes intended to encode ISO-8859-1 characters
happens to correctly represent UTF-8 characters?
- 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, 2014/02/01
- Re: Displaying characters in user's locale,
Gavin Smith <=
- 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