Re: eww doesn't decode %AA%BB%CC URL names

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> That's basically just (car (decode-coding-string ...))
>
> I believe you meant detect-coding-string.

Yup.  :-)

>> though, since it'll return utf-8 first if that's a possible charset,
>> won't it?
>
> You cannot rely on it returning UTF-8, that depends on coding
> priorities (that are subject to customizations) and other things.
>
> I think you should use UTF-8 literally as the first choice.

Right.  How do I check whether the bytes are a valid utf-8 sequence,
though?  I thought I remembered something called
`valid-something-something-p', but I can't find it now...

> Yes, they use these in preference to everything else, something like
> this:
>
>   (let ((coding (or coding-system-for-read
>                     document-encoding
> 		    locale-coding-system
>                     ...)))
>       (decode-coding-string ... coding))

Okidoke.

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