If you don't know what encoding the character data is in, it isn't very useful.

I've heard this before, and it never struck me as persuasive. The rest of this system is very useful and it doesn't need to know the character-set of the data. In fact, there have been far fewer character-set related bugs in this system than in a previous "100% Unicode" system which performed a similar function.

You may be able to puzzle out the encoding by looking at the characters.

Oh, I've been there before and basically found it to be a giant waste of time. Even when it works it's rarely 100% successful. Losing data, even "junk" data which doesn't work for any character set, is not an option in this application.

-sam

In reply to Re: Re: 8-bit Clean XML Data I/O? by samtregar
in thread 8-bit Clean XML Data I/O? by samtregar

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