On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:04:01PM -0700, Matthew Peter wrote:
> Is it possible to automatically detect the language encoding of
> incoming data? For instance if Japanese is used, is there a way to
> know it is Japanese from a bit in the charset, a dictionary-based
> evaluation or otherwise?
While technically possible, do you really want to run the risk of
getting it wrong?
Secondly, if you don't know the encoding of your data, you've got a
security problem, since you can't safely escape the data.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
