Re: proper way to do autodetection

Hello Ben, I thought you may find the information below helpful. Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: ,---- | Internet Explorer actually does something quite interesting: it tries to | guess, based on the frequency in which various bytes appear in typical text in | typical encodings of various languages, what language and encoding was | used. Because the various old 8 byte code pages tended to put their national | letters in different ranges between 128 and 255, and because every human | language has a different characteristic histogram of letter usage, this | actually has a chance of working. | `---- Quoted from http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Regards. -- Surendra Singhi http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945