Re: [Lynx-dev] Unicode-marking, &c

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> David Woolley dixit:
>
> > may use heuristics.
>
> Interestingly enough, the BOM is actually a _standardised_ heuristics.
>
> If it begins with a {UTF-8,UCS-[24][BL]E} BOM, and the subsequent
> text does not contain any encoding errors, consider it of that
> encoding.

patches welcome, as usual.

(I'm limited on time this week, won't be "here" next week, and am 
expecting to work on Lynx week-after-next).

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