Hi Robin,
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Robin Berjon wrote:
> I'm running into trouble with browsers submitting data using various charsets
> and not telling me which charset they're using. This results in all sorts of
> breakages and unusable text. I can't be the only one dealing with this
> problem (if I am, then I'm really out of luck) so I was wondering if anyone
> here knows of a good way to reliably detect the charset that the browser is
> using to post its data.
It will be very difficult to guess reliably what charset is in use from
a random sample of characters taken from it. I think you just have to
be able to handle the data. You need sixteen bits per character.
73,
Ged.
