On 23-Apr-07, at 4:25 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: > Guessing UTF-8 is almost always correct. It's way over 99% > reliability. As long as the UTF-8 is well formed, it's likely to be > UTF-8. The longer the text of course, and the higher fraction of high > bytes, the liklier it's UTF-8. > > It can be done using my ElfData plugin, very easily, using > the .Verify function. > > I use this in practice, for my Encoding Master app. It guesses the > encoding of text files for you amoungst other things.
A wothshilw suggestion so I tried Encoding Master and it also guesses; but not correctly. It comes up with UTF-16 which is closer in some respects But this really seems to be ISO Latin 1 data stored 16 bits per character Very odd and I'm really not sure how to recognize that _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
