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Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)
Sounds like another job for The Demoroniser [fourmilab.ch]... Or an equivalent tool.
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."
Re:Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)
It's probably a programmer somewhere who thinks that iso-8859-1 and Windows-1252 are the same thing.
Re:Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)
Fair point. You can probably assume that the main problem is when Windows sends out a Windows encoding say cp-1252, but lies and calls is iso-8859-1.
One possible solution is to scan any iso-8859-1 files, looking for any diagnostic control-code points (Demoroniser has some suggestions for that), and then ask a recoding program convert this to a civilised scheme, or correctly set the Content-Type.
I have to deal with this all the time, users think that Windows is "correct", then the output a document, incorrectly tagged, and then when they don't see a trademark symbol (™) or micon symbol (µ) on the web site it's my fault! Yesterday several hours were wasted because of the lies that Windows tells...
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."
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