I wanted to ask how can i know if a given text is UTF8 or ISO-8859-1?
If you need conversions, the simplest would be to do it manually using look-up tables. AFAIK none of the Latin-1 characters take more than 2 bytes in UTF-8, so having 2*256 bytes long table won't hurt. If you want to decode special Unicode things like right-to-left stuff, I'd recommend some serious library, such as ICU (icu.sourceforge.net). If you want to detect the encoding/codepage, I don't think it can be done in general, unless you know what text to expect. I might be wrong. Peter
