On 2005-10-27, Paul Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:07:40AM -0000, Andrew - Supernews wrote: >> I'm inclined to suspect that the whole sequence c1 f9 d4 c2 d0 c7 d2 b9 >> was never actually a valid utf-8 string, and that the d2 b9 is only valid >> by coincidence (it's a Cyrillic letter from Azerbaijani). I know the 8.0 >> utf-8 check was broken, but I didn't realize it was quite so bad. > > Looking at the data it appears that it is a sequence of latin1 > characters. They all have the eighth bit set and all seem to pass the > check.
In latin1 it comes out as total gibberish, so I think you'll find it is actually in something else. Some googling suggests it is most likely in a Chinese double-byte charset (GB2312). -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
