Timeline for How to detect the encoding of a file?
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| Jun 10, 2021 at 23:14 | comment | added | Klesun | From the tools I tried, this one was the only that gave precise results, tried Cyrillic and non-standard Japanese. It uses chardet under the hood. Wish I could post it as an answer ;c | |
| Jan 1, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | user25 | well notepad++ can do this, it can tell you if text file is utf-8 encoded or not | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 15:18 | history | edited | Marco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 10:37 | comment | added | Michael Borgwardt | @Marcel: No. That's why "text files" are so problematic for anything except pure ASCII. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 10:33 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 10:24 | comment | added | DeadMG | You're wrong. That is codepages- not quite the same. There are algorithms to guess at the Unicode encoding. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 10:18 | comment | added | Marcel | OK, then, does the Windows OS store that information (meta data) actually somewhere? In the registry probably? | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 10:16 | history | answered | Marco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |