Check the respective code page listings, which you can find here: http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ and here: http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/. It turns out that cp1254 and 8859-9 are the same set of characters -- the only difference is that all the cp12* pages cram stuff into the 0x80-0x9f range, where the 8859-* pages just have "control characters" (effectively nothing useful).

So if you use cp1254 for everything that isn't utf8, you should be fine -- the 8859-9 data will be using a subset of the characters defined by the cp1254 table. (And it's easy to tell whether something is utf8 or not: try to decode it as if it were utf8, and if that fails, you know it isn't utf8.)

In reply to Re: Encoding Problem by graff
in thread Encoding Problem by anlamarama

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