On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:39:04 +0200, דניאל דנון wrote: > If windows notepad can detect encoding there must be a way to do it > yourself. > > Maybe try to get the file's headers, I think it should also contain the > encoding of the file... Plain text files don't have any headers. Perhaps they use heuristics, eg. examine the distribution of characters to determine a probable encoding. [Quick Google...] <http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/04/17/2158334.aspx> /Nisse -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php