Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Dirk Koopman
Daniel Pittman wrote: Philip Newton writes: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:54, Dirk Koopman wrote: Dirk Koopman wrote: Now, is there a reasonably reliable way of determining what we have, on a string by string basis, to at least tell whether we are dealing with utf8 or iso-8859 (not caring which

Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
Philip Newton writes: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:54, Dirk Koopman wrote: >> Dirk Koopman wrote: >>> >>> Now, is there a reasonably reliable way of determining what we have, on a >>> string by string basis, to at least tell whether we are dealing with utf8 >>> or iso-8859 (not caring which varia

Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Dirk Koopman
Philip Newton wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:54, Dirk Koopman wrote: Dirk Koopman wrote: Now, is there a reasonably reliable way of determining what we have, on a string by string basis, to at least tell whether we are dealing with utf8 or iso-8859 (not caring which variant) so that I can d

Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Ash Berlin
On 25 Sep 2009, at 10:09, Philip Newton wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:54, Dirk Koopman wrote: Dirk Koopman wrote: Now, is there a reasonably reliable way of determining what we have, on a string by string basis, to at least tell whether we are dealing with utf8 or iso-8859 (not cari

Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:54, Dirk Koopman wrote: > Dirk Koopman wrote: >> >> Now, is there a reasonably reliable way of determining what we have, on a >> string by string basis, to at least tell whether we are dealing with utf8 or >> iso-8859 (not caring which variant) so that I can drive Encode

Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Dirk Koopman
Dirk Koopman wrote: It appears that, with the increasing prevalence of 5.10, the usage of utf8 or not is getting more picky. I have a well established, networked, app that has upwards of 250 nodes and about 4000 users at one time (on certain weekends double that) all over the world. These use

[OT] Encode woes

2009-09-23 Thread Dirk Koopman
It appears that, with the increasing prevalence of 5.10, the usage of utf8 or not is getting more picky. I have a well established, networked, app that has upwards of 250 nodes and about 4000 users at one time (on certain weekends double that) all over the world. These users are running mainly