Subj : your external editor test of utf-8
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Apr 24 2014 14:12:11

Hey Michiel!

 MvdV> there is no way to tell what character encoding is used.

You mean that you cannot verify encoding.  I could have easily provided the wrong encoding in the CHRS kludge which happens all the time and for sure it would have been grunged just like the Russian site does with LATIN-1 since it uses iconv and there is no such thing as LATIN-1 but instead LATIN1.  I posted an example of this flaw in FTSC_PUBLIC to demonstrate the flaw along with evidence that it is so.

 MvdV> Result -> garbage.

Actually it is fine since the 8 bit codes match perfectly with the utf-8 pair (0xc3, 0xb8) with CP850 for those particular codes.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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