On 23-Apr-07, at 10:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2007, at 15:54 UTC, Norman Palardy wrote:
>
>> Now how can you GUESS what encoding an arbitrary text file is so you
>> can read it properly ?
>
> You can apply more heuristics; the latest version of StringUtils has a
> GuessEncoding method that does this for the major forms of Unicode,  
> but
> doesn't go so far as to guess which legacy encoding it might be.
> That's a hard problem.

Agreed.
Best guess is all I could expect and if there's something in  
StringUtils then that will have to be "close enough" for most use

_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>

Search the archives:
<http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>

Reply via email to