I was thinking that if notepad can open it correctly it has headers - but the link you gave clarify that, my bad. 2009/11/26 Nisse Engström <news.NOSPAM.0ixbtqKe@xxxxxxxx> > 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 > > -- Use ROT26 for best security