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Tao of string encodings (Re: Converting ASCII to UTF-8?)
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Tao of string encodings (Re: Converting ASCII to UTF-8?)


  • Subject: Tao of string encodings (Re: Converting ASCII to UTF-8?)
  • From: Jim Rankin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:49:33 -0500

On Mar 29, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

> You just need to read things in correctly using the correct encoding
> (an encoding matching the source file).

Here's the one piece of the whole encoding puzzle that I've never been
able to figure out.

Your program is handled a file path or url that's ostensibly a text
file. From that point, how do you know the encoding of what you've
just been handed?

Probably missing something obvious...

-jimbo

Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa
http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html
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 >Re: Converting ASCII to UTF-8? (From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>)

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