Another coding question.

Hi list.

in a follow up to my last coding question : when receiving the UTF-8
encoded text, what I wanted to do is to try to encode it to 7 bit ASCII,
if not successful (have chars that need more then 7 bit, i.e. high
iso-8859-8 chars) I will then try to encode to ISO-8859-8 and if that
does not succeed (message probably has unicode characters that are not
part of iso-8859-8) I will then encode to UCS-2. 
Now the problem is that when I try to encode to ASCII or ISO-8859-8,
encoding always succeed, and unicode characters get translated into HTML
entities (for example ס). is there a way to stop it from doing
that and simply fail the conversion ?

I remember something similar to this discussed on the list, but the mail
archive search refused to help me locate it (didn't like me entering
weird characters, like & ;-)


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