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Java : How to determine the correct charset encoding of a stream
How to identify the encoding of a input file by using JAVA?
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1what kind of encoding? is it an image file, text file (unicode, multi-byte code page, office document?) – rwong Aug 01 '10 at 13:55
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I assume he means character encoding (i.e. the codepage) of a text file. – Janick Bernet Aug 01 '10 at 14:07
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1Also related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/774075/character-encoding-detection-algorithm – McDowell Aug 01 '10 at 14:19
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If at all possible, get all the help you can from the origin of the file. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Aug 01 '10 at 14:57
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Detecting correct encoding of a given text is not exact science. All above software are approximations.
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