Subj : Verify encoding
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Apr 27 2014 10:50:06

Hello Maurice,

On Friday April 25 2014 23:56, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> That is more or less what I expected

 MK> I already stated that I was only concerned with utf-8 verification and
 MK> that part has been 100% so far with or without a CHRS kludge.  That is
 MK> all that matters.

No, it is not all that matters. Your character reconition scheme only works if you go by the assumption that it uis UTF-8.

 MvdV>> I never claimed it was possible, weheras you did.

 MK> I claimed it was possible to verify utf-8 with or without CHRS kludge.

I complained that I had no way of knowing WHAT encoding is used when the CHRS kludge is absent.

 MK> The scanning routine successfully determined it wasn't a utf-8 message
 MK> and that is all it had to do.  Given this particular echo called
 MK> "UTF-8" then it is doing it's job admirably.  No?

No indeed.The world of character encoding in Fidonet is wider than that of ASCII and UTF-8. Just determining that it is utf-8 or not is not good enough.


Cheers, Michiel

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