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Hello,

How to know that the given text is with which encoding method?
for example, is it ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, KOI8-U, or others?

Thanks.

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On Tuesday 08 Feb 2011 16:39:56 terry peng wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How to know that the given text is with which encoding method?
> for example, is it ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, KOI8-U, or others?
>

I recall finding a CPAN module or two for that:

* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-GuessEncoding/

* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode-Detect/

I should note that guessing an encoding is not reliable - an 8-bit text can be
ISO-8859-1 but it might as well be ISO-8859-2 etc. and 7-bit ASCII can is
upwards compatible with all of them and with UTF-8 and you can only find one
is the case by finding common patterns of usage.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

> Thanks.

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