On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:23:58AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > Anyway, though I don't know such a module, your way can be very easily
> > implemented. I think the easiest one is like following:
> >
> > $name =~ s/([\x80-\xff])/"&#".ord($1).";"/eg;
>
> I wrote a new filter which
> - assume the input string is UTF-8 if it can be interpreted as such,
> - assume it is ISO-8859-1 if not.
>
> Since UTF-8 encoding method is relatively strict, it is not likely that
> ISO-8859-1-intended string is wrongly assumed to be UTF-8. I confirmed
> that people.names has no octet stream which can be interpreted as UTF-8.
> (Individual 8bit character must not be UTF-8; in UTF-8, 8bit character
> must appear in series.)
>
> With this filter, my concern is completely solved. Also you don't need
> to think about future maintainance labor when a new maintainer uses 8bit
> characters for his/her name.
Sounds very good, thanks.
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