From: "Peter J. Holzer" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:28:09 +0100 Organization: LUGA Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <9kava8lk1ignppq7rso7gmcb541gnerf8q@4ax.com> <78n1b8tkmcbdefk2ifeeroklp93p88otma@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:1418:100:825e::5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: cherenkov.luga.at 1354040889 26695 2001:1418:100:825e::5 (27 Nov 2012 18:28:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@luga.at NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:28:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-40 (Linux) Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.wsr.ac.at!news.luga.at!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19997 On 2012-11-25 17:06, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > On 11/25/2012 3:07 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> On 2012-11-24 14:50, Roedy Green wrote: >>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:53:51 +0100, Jan Burse >>> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >>>> I guess Roedy wants the charset. >>> >>> In HTTP the meta information is in the HTTP header. This is all very >>> well except the that the server is just guessing. >> >> No. Normally it isn't guessing at all. It just uses the configured >> charset. > > And how is the configured charset not guessing? The server doesn't guess. It just does what it is told. The admin may be guessing, though. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Fluch der elektronischen Textverarbeitung: |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Man feilt solange an seinen Text um, bis | | | hjp@hjp.at | die Satzbestandteile des Satzes nicht mehr __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | zusammenpaßt. -- Ralph Babel