From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T21:38:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Charset detection

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Miquel Oliete wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I'm coding a planet software in Ruby, like planet planet, but inserting=

> all rss data into a database (mysql now) and showing the entries from
> database.
>=20
> I don't know how can I detect the rss charset. Can you help me?
>=20

Look for the XML header? That one should list encoding.

If it doesn't, bitch, whine, and moan at the feed author to do so,
charset detection is unavoidably a hack and shouldn't have to be done by
now if interoperating apps are coded sanely. (And if someone don't code
a RSS feed provider with interop in mind, there is no God anymore.)

David Vallner


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