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brynjarh 12-03-2004 09:49 AM
How do I know how a file is encoded? UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.. ??
 
How can I find out how a file is encoded??
UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, etc..

Mara 12-03-2004 11:11 AM
If it's a text file without a header starting it, you can only guess by checking the characters to see which charset they're from.


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