Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: No. German in iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, iso-8859-15 and iso-8859-16 without using the Euro sign is bit-for-bit identical. Russian using KOI8-U (which Ukrainians have occasion to do, the entire country is bilingual) is bit-for-bit identical to the same Russian using KOI8-R. Reliably differentiating those pairs without metadata is not possible. Note that every solution will have some user behaviour where the correct reaction for us is the frequent one of the MD confronted with a patient whose complaint is ‘Doctor, it hurts when I do this’; ‘Then don’t do that.’ Gzip and bzip2 legitimately don’t try to undo damage to files that have been corrupted by FTP, and no-one expects them to. Encouraging data corruption is not a particularly worthy goal, especially in this day and age when Unix programs can read Shift JIS. -- On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came once more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta