Re: webmin translation and encoding question
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:31:11PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> does 'iconv -f <some-encoding> -t <some-encoding>' always work for detecting
> if something is in <some-encoding> or does this only work for utf-8?
iconv can not detect the encoding some file is in. the above test
works by failing on illegal utf-8 byte streams. because latin*
encodings use all 256 bytes for chars, every possible bytestream
is leagal and it will not fail for any latin* encoding. hence the
test will not work.
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