
18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
12:33 a.m.
Are you talking about reading the files directly from gutenberg.org? Files are served up with the encoding specified in the http header. I don't know the technical details--Marcello set it all up. --Andrew On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Paulo Levi wrote:
Just a little input about text files and charsets (encodings), since i had to use it for my program. Most browsers and applications open these files in the correctly simply because someone (mostly mozilla) did the hard work of making a fast guessing engine. I wouldn't be amazed if it failed in some books.