From: Matthias Urlichs Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:42:46 GMT Subject: Re: GIT character codecs Message-ID: <20051114074246.GP27727@kiste.smurf.noris.de> In-Reply-To: <20051114063126.27817.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> 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