Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 17:07:16 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> 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?

This cannot happen, by virtue of the UTF-8 definition and the fact
that ISO-8859-1 is a single-byte encoding.