Re: Phone encodings (revisited)

> It should iterate through the supported charsets untill the 
> conversion is successful.  

That is by far the worst way of doing it!  If you had a random
stream of bytes and wanted to convert to unicode then telling
it to use almost any encoding would work.  Conversely going
from unicode to a particular byte encoding will often give
you errors, even if the encoding is correct.  The *ONLY* way
to do conversions correctly is if you know what the encoding is.

Joel has a good article on Unicode:

  The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, 
  Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets 
  (No Excuses!)

 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Roger


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