What is the best way to figure out and then decode a file of
unknown coding to dchar?
2½% Index-linked Treasury Stock
2016,GB0009075325,26-Jul-2016,28-Feb-2014,8
month,337.81,338.577874,0.76787400,-1.953546,2.37
Eg I am not sure what encoding the 1/2 is in above, but treating
it as
On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 19:22:41 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
What is the best way to figure out and then decode a file of
unknown coding to dchar?
You generally can't, though some statistical analysis can
sometimes help. The encoding needs to be known through some other
means to have a
First try utf-8, if it doesn't work, then use some fallback
encoding like latin1.
