Re: transcoding nearly certainly wrong?

Bert Bos wrote:

> But if it doesn't work, you can look more closely at the MIME type and
> use your knowledge about foo. If foo is css or html, you can convert
> from any encoding to any encoding (and I do so often). If foo is
> something+xml, you can still do do it, as long as all element names
> and attribute names are in ASCII.
... and if you check the first few bytes and if they say, for example,

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>

then you also fix them.  -Tim