Hi Dave- I have some code I've been using for a few years for this purpose... when I consulted Google on the source of the TECSniffer class that I have, the search was not revealing. So... I've posted the class files here:
http://www.positivespinmedia.com/dev/TEC.zip I believe it is using some carbon-y Text Encoding Converter goodness, but could not say for sure. The code is called like so in my app: TECSniffer *sniffer = [[TECSniffer alloc] initWithWebTextEncodings]; NSArray *results = [sniffer sniff:_htmldata]; while(!htmlString && i < [results count]){ htmlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_htmldata encoding:[[results objectAtIndex:i] unsignedIntValue]]; } I didn't write the original code, and couldn't track down the origination of it. Perhaps it will help! John On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Dave DeLong wrote: > > I have a seemingly simple question, but I haven't been able to figure it out. > > Given a file, how can I determine the NSStringEncoding of the file, without > reading the entire file into memory? (If the file isn't a text file, then > defaulting to NSUTF8StringEncoding is just fine, since my code will only work > properly if I'm working with text files anyway) > > I've found this: > http://www.macosxguru.net/article.php?story=20030808081801868 but it seems > ridiculously complex... > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
