On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:43:50 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote:
> According to this (yet probably dated ) page: > http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html > universal_charset_detector might help if it were enabled by default. Just looked at the above page again, and noticed that the "japanese" charset detector also supports UTF-8 and cp1252. So I tried to set intl.charset.detector to "ja_parallel_state_machine" and actually at least the minimal utf-8 text file I just tested (which contains no more than a bunch of german umlaut characters) is now displayed correctly. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. "Life and death are seldom logical." "But attaining a desired goal always is." -- McCoy and Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2821.7