From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-06-06T06:52:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] A question on input encodings

Hi,

At Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:36:54 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:
> Now, someone in Japan wants to add Japanese comments (I have no idea
> which encoding would be used, but let's say SJIS). If they fire up an
> editor in SJIS mode, will that get confused by the existing UTF-8
> characters in the file? If I edit the file later using a UTF-8 editor,
> will it normalize the SJIS characters and destroy those comments? Is
> is possible in practice to edit a file that contains multiple
> incompatible encodings?

It is impossible to distinguish SJIS and UTF-8 by their data.
I don't know sure how your editor behaves if there are
incomplete multibyte sequences.

-- 
Nobu Nakada