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

[Raphael Schnuck]

The new files must have the same encoding. And so I think it's not the 
best but a solution.

Raffa

Michael Kay schrieb:
> 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.
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> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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>>-----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
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>>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.
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>>Raffa
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>>Michael Kay schrieb:
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>>>>>i just have a problem. i want to find out the encoding of an old 
>>>>>xsd-file. but i don't know how. 
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>>>In general, if you don't know the encoding of a file then 
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>>there is no way to
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>>>find out. For example there is no way for a machine to tell 
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>>the difference
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>>>between a file in iso-8859-1 and one in iso-8859-2. A human 
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>>being can do
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>>>better, because even in a schema, accented letters are 
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>>likely to appear in
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>>>the middle of words that make sense in some written 
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>>language. So you just
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>>>have to try different possibilities and see if they make sense.
>>>
>>>Michael Kay
>>>http://www.saxonica.com/
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