> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:34:19 +0000 > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: Karl Berry <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This depends on what files are out there with no encoding specified. > >> Do you know how long makeinfo has output an encoding section? Is it > >> still possible today that makeinfo could output a UTF-8 file with no > >> encoding specified? > > > > It could be, with makeinfo 4.13, I think. > > > > In any case, UTF-8 covers ASCII, so I think it is safe these days. > > > What if a file is not in UTF-8 and doesn't specify its encoding? Is it > likely, for example, that there are many files in ISO-8859-1 which > don't specify their encoding?
That could happen, yes. But I don't see any bad outcome for that with the rest of your code in place. Do you? The way I see it, iconv will report an error, and you punt and let the original characters hit the glass, right?
