Philippe Marschall wrote: > Tudor Girba wrote: >> Or more general, how can I find out what kind of converter I need for >> a given file?
... > You can pretend the problem doesn't exist and just use a random encoding > aka the platform default encoding. That would work if all your files > were are created on your computer and all your programs used the At least for those files it will work in almost all cases. > platform default encoding. E.g. you don't download stuff from the > internet or copy stuff off storage media (USB sticks, CDs, DVDs, ...). Well, there are some heuristics, but nothing failsafe... If the file has cr-lf, it is probably a windows file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#ISO-8859-1_and_Windows-1252_confusion You can check for a Unicode BOM. .html should be UTF-8 these days. Try reading UTF-8, if it fails try re-reading with platform encoding. > > The funny thing is that XML partially solves the problem because the > encoding can be put into the preamble. In fact it should if the file is > not ASCII. You can make a guess whether Yaxo supports binary input and > detecting the encoding either from the BOM or the preamble. Hmm, to be honest I'm not sure myself, but I think I (with help from others) did some work a while ago to make it read files according to the encoding entry. But maybe my memory has the wrong encoding ;-) Michael _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
