On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > > (as you can see from the top page here: > > http://www.issho.org/ , pretty much every language - and > > encoding - out there, needs to be supported). > > > > a way to wildcard it would be preferred. :) > > Is there not such a way? > > Since encoding detection is essentially heuristic and thus its > accuracy depends on the number of likely candidates given in the first > place, there is no way to guess a right encoding out of any possible > encodings from limited length of strings.
Thank you. Some people are apparently using the Encode::HanDetect perl module to guess the encoding the feed based on statistical heuristics. Too imperfect to try, or something that can be done with perl but not with php? -- Tony Laszlo http://www.issho.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=LaszloBlog (going for the record: blog with the longest URL) -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
