xml-dev - Re: ANNOUNCE: xml encoding detector in C

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Paul Langer wrote:

> One remark on the EBCDIC handling:
> 
> Your program returns "EBCDIC-CP-US" if it detects EBCDIC
> without an explicit encoding declaration (see comment:
>  /* better than nothing */).
> 
> I do not think that this behaviour is "better than nothing".

In Java I could throw an error, but C doesn't have exception
handling, and I figure a server would rather return something
than nothing.  The routine is not meant to handle ill-formed
XML, and will return one of the other defaults ("UTF-8",
"UTF-16-BE", "UTF-16-LE") depending on just what bytes it sees.

> And if you want to define a default, what makes "EBCDIC-CP-US"
> more desirable than e.g. "ebcdic-cp-is"?

Nothing.

Thanks for taking the trouble to look at it.

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