Re: How to get buffer byte length (not number of characters)?

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:44:04PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Joseph Turner <joseph@ushin.org>

[...]

> > When decoding, should plz fallback to detect-coding-region instead of utf-8?
> 
> If this is HTML, then I think it is okay to trust the headers about
> the charset and default to UTF-8.  The problem with
> detect-coding-region is that some of it is based on guesswork [...]

Yes, and it's incredibly crude guesswork at times. Talk to the server
admin.

With HTML and friends, you get one or two layers of fun, because they
can declare the encoding /whithin/ the stream (HTML in two different
ways, at least). If the "outer layer" decides to helpfully recode,
then the inner declarations are lying (I actually had this with HTML
mails: the MIME layer recoded Latin-1 to UTF-8, the tag
<meta charset="iso-8859-1"> in there was a lie.

Needless to say, html2text made mojibake :-)

Cheers
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t

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