(Since this thread originated on a perl list), you could also play with perl module Lingua::Ident.
- - Martin > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Marco Baroni wrote: > > > So, I would like to ask you or anybody else: is there some > kind of tool > > (e.g., a text editor) that I could use to discover which > encoding is > > being used? (I tried with emacs but failed). > >