On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:04:27 +0100 "John Dougrez-Lewis" <jle...@lightblue.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick, > > > Hi, are you by any chance the Raving Loony I once knew at Cambridge? > > Yes indeed - that must be 35 years ago now - these days I'm a bit more > sensible (although the legacy of the OMRLP lives on). OMLRP? It was ∇ ∇ back then (CURLS, if email screws that up). > > Basically there are three parts to working with character encodings: > > * Detecting them in incoming data. > > * Converting them to order. > > * Correctly labelling outgoing data. > > > mod_xml2enc will do all that for libxml2-based filters, and could easily > be tweaked to drop the libxml2-specific optimisations for general- > > purpose use. Alternatively the charset-detection from mod_xml2enc could > probably be folded into mod_charset_lite. > > So basically mod_xml2enc will detect the incoming encoding (whatever it may > be)? I suggest instead of debating here, take a look at it. Start with the docs, and then move on to the code if necessary. -- Nick Kew
