Re: Re: Detecting The Encoding Of A Text File

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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

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