Well, let it be only ascii and utf-8 plus a popup dialog asking to select
encoding if it's not one of those two (configurable). This user selection could
also be remembered somewhere.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Guillaume Laforge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:00:30 +0200
Subject: [Eap-features] Re: Re: Improvement: make encoding detection
intelligent, not based on assumptions

> 
> 
> "Igor Karpov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ecrit dans le message news:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To start with, It would be enough to support autodetection of plain old
> > us-ascii, utf-8 and the system default encoding.
> > For instance, I use only those three.
> > And, of course, it should be XML-friendly.
> > Personally, I have some XMLs that are in UTF-8 and some are just without
> any
> > encoding (assuming us-ascii), and it's still a pain to edit UTF-8. Even if
> I
> > had Win2000(XP?) here with its mighty notepad, it would insert its 3 bytes
> at
> > the start that drive XML tools crazy...
> 
> Hmm... that's the problem.
> It's easy to guess when it's ASCII or UTF-8. But maybe we could assume that
> chars between 128 and 255 are from the standard platform encoding (system
> default encoding) ? KOIR-8 if you're Russin, ISO-8859-1 if you're European,
> etc...
> Some editors like UltraEdit seem to be quite good at guessing the encoding
> of a file.
> 
> Guillaume
> 
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