Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/30

stuart.sierra said: Updating tickets (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #20, #23, #25, #30, #31, #33, #34, #35, #37, #38, #52, #55, #58, #59, #60, #61, #62, #63, #64)

stu said: I am not sure there is a good answer here. The code above chooses an encoding with an explicit marker, and gets what it asks for.

One proposed solution (http://github.com/sergey-miryanov/clojure-contrib/commits/bug-30) tries to detect this scenario, and recover via a hard-coded mapping between encodings-with-markers and similar-encodings-without. But I don't think this can work in general, because the set of possible encodings is open and the Charset API doesn't provide a mapping between the with-markers and without-markers versions.

Sorry, and please feel free to reopen this if I am missing an obvious approach.