hola On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:34 -0700, Todd Ross wrote: > In order to convert _to_ EBCDIC, I need to know what I'm converting _from_. > And > therein lies my impossible problem; how does one determine the encoding of a > file upload? The browser does provide some information in the form of the > file > name and the mime type but neither would indicate whether the (text/plain) > file > was encoded with ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or something else entirely.
i think you have to do this programmatically by examining the characters in the file. there may be libraries to do this already somewhere, but i have exerted no effort to find them. as you mention, you can't count on users, and they can [and will] upload just about anything. good luck! -- \js ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
