Re: UTF-8 keyboard mode

[towo@computer.org]

: Thomas Wolff wrote:
: 
: > Mined (my editor...) performs automatic detection of UTF-8 vs Latin-1. 
: > It's quite easy.
: > I derived the algorithm from a straightforward table of legal/illegal 
: > byte sequence patterns.
: > It doesn't convert, though, but rather handles the file in its original 
: > format. Even mixed-encoding files can be edited.
: 
: How much of the file do you need to examine to detect the encoding?
As I read the entire file anyway without re-encoding it, I apply the 
detection over the whole text.

Kind regards,
Thomas Wolff
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Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
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