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>>69
there's no reason not to make all strings unicode, or at least handle the conversions automatically.

>>72
it's fairly easy to write code that can identify any encodings that are still in widespread use.

>>74
[/code]if string is not valid utf8 or ascii
  if string is valid shift_jis
    convert string from shift_jis to utf8
  else convert string from iso 8859-1 to utf8
return string[/code]

>>79
it's trivial to determine if a particular byte sequence is not valid ascii (any bytes with 8th bit set), utf8 (any bytes with 8th bit set that aren't part of a valid utf8 multibyte character), or shift_jis (any bytes other than 00-0F,A1-DF that aren't part of a valid shift_jis double-byte character). no magic necessary.