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- Subject: Re: Lost in Unicode
- From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:41:52 +0200 (CEST)
> It's a pity there's no way to distinguish between the two types of text files
> by looking at their contents (apart maybe from statistical analysis...).
There is a way, because ISO-8859-1 files are invalid unicode. (If you get
a file that is pure 7-bit ASCII, it doesn't matter which you treat it as.)
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