what encoding is this? How can I tell? How can I translate?

Martin von Loewis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Wed Sep 26 11:28:27 EDT 2001


"Werner Schiendl" <ws-news at gmx.at> writes:

> > Regardless, most of the latin-based encodings use the full range of
> > 256 bytes, yet they all differ from latin-1 (unless they are identical
> > to latin-1). Therefore, all of them, without exception, have characters
> > that cannot be transformed to UTF-8.
> >
> 
> I guess this is just a typo, but of course you can transform _any_ known
> encoding to Unicode (without loss of information).

Indeed; that should be "to latin-1".

Thanks,
Martin



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