Re: Questions regarding utf-8

["Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, John Darrington wrote:

> Given a text file, it will attempt to guess the natural language in
> which it was written. I'm sure it would be fairly simple to modify it to
> guess the charset.  If you point me to a reasonably large set of example
> files, I'll see what I can do.

You could use your existing samples, which hopefully include a number of
non-ASCII characters, recode them to UTF-8, and then try a few encodings
-- the German text would typically be in latin-1, latin-15, or one of the
Windows or Mac specific charsets for West or Central Europe.

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