[PLUG] getting a file's character set?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org> writes:

Brent> It's not a problem when you stay within the 7 bit ascii limits but when
Brent> they start throwing in trademark, registration, curly quotes, em
Brent> dashes, en dashes, ellipsis, etc, characters it makes the xml parser
Brent> we're using puke.

Very likely, those files are just latin-1, where the default for XML
is (sanely) UTF-8.  Just add the ISO-8859-1 header, and try again.

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