Re: Removing Unsafe Characters

If this content is all really old and comes from everywhere, you likely have more to worry about than just utf-8 vs latin-1... I run into the Windows 1252 stuff sometimes and the problem there, as I understand it, is while it often has the same characters as ISO-8859-1, it also has many that are just some MS version of a character. How many people typed something in Word and then sent as an email or through onto a web site?

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Re^2: Removing Unsafe Characters by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 29, 2009 at 14:17 UTC
Once you decode UTF-8, iso-latin-1 and cp1252, you end up with Unicode characters, so that doesn't change the problem: Determining which Unicode characters can be represented by most browser/computer setups, and determining what to do with those that can't. Yes, you might get undecodable text if you receive something that's in the wrong encoding. And yes, a different character than the intended one might be displayed. But that's an entirely different problem than the one the OP asked about.	[reply]

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Re^2: Removing Unsafe Characters
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 29, 2009 at 14:17 UTC

Once you decode UTF-8, iso-latin-1 and cp1252, you end up with Unicode characters, so that doesn't change the problem:

Determining which Unicode characters can be represented by most browser/computer setups, and
determining what to do with those that can't.

Yes, you might get undecodable text if you receive something that's in the wrong encoding. And yes, a different character than the intended one might be displayed. But that's an entirely different problem than the one the OP asked about.

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