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The whole point of this is that I do not want to reject stuff I don't have to.
But you will have to reject something; it's not possible to just guess the encoding (and be correct all the time, that is)... I'd go for being pedantic, and just contact them, saying they don't follow the standard and try to shame them into fixing it.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Guess between UTF8 and Latin1/ISO-8859-1
by Jenda (Abbot) on Jan 21, 2004 at 21:59 UTC

    For some applications your position "I can't have any incorrect data in the system, if it aint 100% sure I'll reject it" is definitely the right one. All I'm trying to say is that for me in this particular case to be safe means to import everything I possibly can even if it means that there might be an incorrect character now and then.

    There is not one correct way to handle errors. The right way depends on the application.

    Jenda
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