Puzzled by code pages

Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 15 17:42:43 EDT 2010


> Conclusions:
> 
> It's worth closely scrutinising "accented characters - equivalent to ISO-8859-2
> (I believe)". Which variety of "OpenStep plist files" are you looking at:
> NeXTSTEP, GNUstep, or MAC OS X? If the latter, it's evidently an XML document,
> and you should be letting the XML parser decode it for you and in any case as an
> XML document it's most likely UTF-8, not ISO-8859-2.
> 
> It's worth examining your definition of "working".

I came to the same conclusions after reading the OP's article.

Regards,
Martin



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