Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
> Bjï¿œrn Persson wrote:
> 
>> Theoretically it's better to store the encoding outside the file so that
>> you can know what encoding to use before you start reading the file.
>> In practice this is usually impossible.
> 
> Actually it is possible. The technique employed is called "extended
> attributes" and is available for all modern operating systems.

Will editors, compilers, preprocessors et cetera find the encoding 
setting in the extended attributes and obey it? Will version handlers, 
web browsers and other file transfer programs find the setting and send 
it when uploading? Will they set it correctly when downloading? Will all 
these programs use the same attribute for character encoding or will 
each one do it its own way? Will file managers copy and move the 
extended attributes along with the file?

In short, is it really possible *in practice*?

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