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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the |
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> portage install stage? I think that would probably be the best option. At a |
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> later stage a simple detection and warning might be sufficient. |
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Tricky. You can parse a file and check if it's valid UTF-8 but the |
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problem is that you can't be sure if it isn't (eg) just a ISO8859-2 |
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formatted one that happened to have interesting sequence of characters. |
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That said, there are some tools that tries to perform some magic |
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(statistical data analysis etc) and guess the correct encoding. [1] |
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[1] app-i18n/enca, http://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/ |
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HTH, |
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-jkt |
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cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth |
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