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, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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