Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:34:19 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> This depends on what files are out there with no encoding specified.
> >> Do you know how long makeinfo has output an encoding section? Is it
> >> still possible today that makeinfo could output a UTF-8 file with no
> >> encoding specified?
> >
> > It could be, with makeinfo 4.13, I think.
> >
> > In any case, UTF-8 covers ASCII, so I think it is safe these days.
> >
> What if a file is not in UTF-8 and doesn't specify its encoding? Is it
> likely, for example, that there are many files in ISO-8859-1 which
> don't specify their encoding?

That could happen, yes.  But I don't see any bad outcome for that with
the rest of your code in place.  Do you?

The way I see it, iconv will report an error, and you punt and let the
original characters hit the glass, right?