Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : August Abolins
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Jan 25 2020 22:05:30

Hello August,

On Friday January 24 2020 18:02, you wrote to Oli:

 O>> But there shouldn't be any invalid characters in the nodelist.
 O>> They should be translated or stripped. A UTF-8 nodelist that is
 O>> not a valid UTF-8 file is a bit pointless.

Agreed.

 AA> So..  why not have "the process gods" do the correction, and share the
 AA> corrected version to the originator?

How? Conversion is easely done with Iconv. /If/ the encoding is known. But how does one know the original encoding if it is just one character? OK. in the case of Blörn it is not all that hard to guess. But what in the general case?

It should not be necessary. Responsible RCs should not submit nodelist segments with non ASCII characters for the ASCII nodelist.


Cheers, Michiel

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