On Tue, 2009-02-17 12:22:58 -0700, zooko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Shawn Willden wrote: > > Maybe rather than trying a bunch of different encodings, just try: > > > > (1) The encoding for the current locale (whether specified per- > > file or by the environment. > > (2) UTF-8 > > > > And if neither of those work, then treat it as an opaque blob. > > Perhaps toss in UTF-16 as well. > > That sounds good, since UTF-16 is the default for Microsoft > platforms, so names encoded in UTF-16 are probably common.
UTF-16?
Most of my files encode to ASCII, only a few need those German
Umlauts, even less need the fancy stuff. I will not (for sure) argue
about the storage space wasted by UTF-16 vs. UTF-8, but for now, UTF-8
is probably an encoding that's easier handled (at least by humans)
than UTF-16.
MfG, JBG
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