Re: Handling unrecognized or unsupported charset

Tex Texin wrote:
> No, the style sheet is defined in terms of unicode characters, but the encoding can
> be anything and parsing can be in the native encoding as long as it is equivalent to
> Unicode.

This last part is sort of key.

> If in the case of an unrecognized encoding, the parser presumed utf-8 and
> looked for the usual boundary markers (@, ;, etc.) for many sheets it would do an
> adequate job of parsing.

Yes, but is that desirable?  That would get flat-wrong results for any
non-ascii-compatible encoding out there, for example...  of which there are plenty.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 15 July 2004 23:18:42 UTC