Markus Scherer scripsit: > Yes. Any reasonable SCSU encoder will stay in the ASCII-compatible > single-byte mode until it sees a character from beyond Latin-1. Thus > the encoding declaration will be ASCII-readable.
Indeed, there is no such requirement. A parser can perfectly well handle EBCDIC or other non-ASCII-compatible encodings provided a proper declaration expressed in that encoding is present. To be sure, some encodings, like US-BSCII, are problematic. US-BSCII is the same as US-ASCII except that 0x41 is B and 0x42 is A; the trouble being of course that the string "US-ASCII" encoded in US-ASCII uses the same bytes as the string "US-BSCII" encoded in US-BSCII. But such a thing is not likely to happen except through perversity such as this. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
