Re: webmin translation and encoding question
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On 23-02-2005 00:20, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> 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.
Are you aware of the alternative tool "recode"?
- Jonas
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