• Kagamin <spam here.lot> May 31 2011

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Adam D. Ruppe Wrote:

 The first problem I had was users can upload csv files, which they
 generally make in Excel... which apparently outputs Windows-1252.
 Fine for 99% of text, but then someone puts in a curly quote or
 an em dash and it throws an invalid utf 8 sequence.


The client usually send information about its locale, from this info you can
infer ANSI encoding.