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Re^4: How to handle encodings?by Narveson (Chaplain) |
on Mar 07, 2009 at 22:28 UTC ( [id://749090]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Who's to say if chr(250) is "Č" (ISO-8859-2) or "Θ" (ISO-8859-7)? Any moderately experienced human eye, given a paragraph of context. Have you ever played the game of pulling down the Character Encoding menu in your Web Browser and trying the same page in different encodings? This is not a dissent from moritz's and clinton's advice. By all means heed any available declarations. But in the absence of a declaration, the right encoding is humanly guessable, even when the alternatives are different members of the ISO-8859 series. And if it's humanly guessable, then a CPAN module should in principle be able to do it too. I don't know what algorithm Encode::Guess uses. My own algorithm (untested) would be
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