On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:56:26PM -0400, Micah Carrick wrote: > Is there a routine I can use to determine the character encoding of a > text file so I can then convert it to UTF-8 for display in a gtkTextView? Generally, no. For a short text in arbitrary language and arbitrary encoding even humans may not be able to determine it. It's quite easy to tell apart legacy 8bit encoding and unicode variants UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-4. Quite a few programs can do it (e.g., file) although there's no such routine in GLib AFAIK. But if you need to recognize legacy 8bit encodings, you are in trouble (I've written a program Enca, that does it for some East-European languages, but that's probably of little help here; various detection routines for Asian languages can be found on the web too; and methods to determine both language and encoding exist too, but they need fairly long/typical text). If it's reasonable to assume the text is related to current locale somehow, you can simply try nl_langinfo(CODESET) from non-Unicode version of that locale. Or something like that, depending on the situation. In all cases, if the file is user-supplied allow user to choose the encoding. Yeti -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
