Re: intelligent charset recognition for irc

[Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> That should be fairly practical and reliable to do. Would it be worth to
> assume that the text is in CP1252 instead of ISO 8859-1 if the UTF-8
> test fails?

FWIW, I've never seen CP1252 in IRC.

It would be sensible to allow the user to change 8859-1 assumption to
something else - e.g. KOI8-R for Russians.

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