make khtml/misc/decoder.* public

[Thiago Macieira]

Maksim Orlovich wrote:
>Depends on your notion of safety, though. For a lot of codecs, while you
>can not detect them reliably, picking them will do no harm, as they're
>completely, 100% reversible --- when you convert to unicode and back,
> you get the original input back.  In contrast, detecting utf8 from BOM
> -is- technically unsafe, since if the BOM-looking sequence is an
> accident, and the rest of file is malformed, it's big trouble..

I didn't add this because I thought it would be stating the obvious:

any encoding detection has to make sure that it can decode and recode back 
without errors

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