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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Heuristic autodetection of utf-8 unicode?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-02-25 21:52:41
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On Monday 25 February 2002 21:37, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2002 18:29, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> > Kde folks;
> >
> > First: Is there a standard kde/qt/glibc way that is recommended for kde
> > authors to determine if a string is utf-8 encoded?
> >
> > Second: Has anyone any experience with using utf-8 encoded text in jpeg
> > COM comment blocks?
> >
> >               -Bryce (bryce at obviously.com)
>
> Just an idea: if you are writting the UTF-8 strings yourself, you can
> always add the BOM (Byte Order Mark, Unicode 0xEFFF) at the start of your
> text.

Sorry, I meant: 0xFEFF not 0xEFFF

>
> You can look at the appendice F "Autodetection of Character Encodings" of
> the XML Recommendation (even if you do not plan to write or read XML.)
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
>
> Appendice F tells that the BOM is coded in UTF-8 like that:
> 0xEF 0xBB 0XBF
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night!
 
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