[jdom-interest] get encoding of an old xsd-file

[Michael Kay]

A highly dangerous solution, I think, since there is no particular reason
why the encoding of the new file should be the same as the old.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raphael Schnuck [mailto:raffa at schnuck.org] 
> Sent: 01 July 2005 13:38
> To: Michael Kay; 'Bradley S. Huffman'
> Cc: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] get encoding of an old xsd-file
> 
> I solved the problem on another way. I just get the first 
> line out of my 
> old file and replace the first line of the new file with it. Not the 
> best solution but it works.
> 
> Raffa
> 
> Michael Kay schrieb:
> >>>i just have a problem. i want to find out the encoding of an old 
> >>>xsd-file. but i don't know how. 
> > 
> > 
> > In general, if you don't know the encoding of a file then 
> there is no way to
> > find out. For example there is no way for a machine to tell 
> the difference
> > between a file in iso-8859-1 and one in iso-8859-2. A human 
> being can do
> > better, because even in a schema, accented letters are 
> likely to appear in
> > the middle of words that make sense in some written 
> language. So you just
> > have to try different possibilities and see if they make sense.
> > 
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>