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Re: Q: View as Windows-1252?



On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:22:36PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:

>     And if we had the magic universal isprint(), well... The practical
> benefit to the auto-sensing guesswork would be much lower than expected.
> "iso-8859-1:utf-8" would be possible, but unreliable (some UTF strings
> happen to not contain 128-159 bytes, and would be wrongly sensed as L1).

Try "utf-8:iso-8859-1" instead of "iso-8859-1:utf-8".  For practical
purposes, no L1 strings decode as UTF-8, imho.

Kai