[Clipart] [Bug 3867] Bad character encoding for submited files

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------- Additional Comments From sas00003 at btinternet.com  2005-08-24 00:50 -------
Jonadab writes:

> How did you discover this in the first place?

I was examining your fixed version of index.xml, and happened to search for &.
 
> > When you get metadata from the form, the encoding should be 
> > specified in the HTTP header. 
> 
> Actually, I think it's specified in the separators,

Yes, you're right.

> If I boot into DOS, I can type IBM Extended ASCII characters with
> the Alt+nnn-on-the-numpad trick, but those won't display correctly
> on any modern system.

But you could use GNU recode to convert them to UTF-8:

  recode IBM437/CR-LF..u8 filename.txt

or to Latin-1 (when possible):

  recode IBM437/CR-LF..lat1 filename.txt
 
or to some other appropriate modern encoding.
          
     
     
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