Michael Gerz wrote: > Peter Kümmel schrieb: >>> Is there any way to determine the encoding of a file? Can't any file be >>> considered as UTF-8 (even if it is not encoded in UTF-8)? >>> >> >> Georg's comment in bugzilla is >> >> >>>>> Yes, LyX treats all text files as utf8, and iconv can choke on >>>>> non-utf8 text >>>>> >> >> > > Oh, that means that there are some byte combinations that don't make a > UTF-8 character. Interesting. > > However, with 8-bit local encoding, every file should be acceptable. The
Are you sure? As I understand it local8bit is the concrete value of the system which iconv uses, for instance ARMSCII-8 ( http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ ) and then it is still possible that converting fails. > second error message will never occur. Maybe you should raise a warning You mean a message box should pop up? This could be annoying when you import a lot. > if UTF-8 fails and you try to use 8-bit-local. > Michael > -- Peter Kümmel
