From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T22:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Charset detection

On Nov 9, 2006, at 6:38 AM, David Vallner wrote:

> Miquel Oliete wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I don't know how can I detect the rss charset. Can you help me?
>>
>
> 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.

Right, cause XML encoding headers *never* lie.  ;)

If you have the header it's probably best to trust it.  If not,  
libcharguess is quite accurate, even if David labels it a "hack."

James Edward Gray II