Re: Determining Text File Encoding

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, at 2:51 PM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: > Thanks Alan! I'll give this a try. > > BTW, I like to note the original source in my comments, so do I get to > credit you for this code? > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan > Bourke > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 4:25 AM > To: profoxtech@leafe.com > Subject: Re: Determining Text File Encoding > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, at 7:00 PM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: > > Ok, this may be a dumb question, but is there a reliable and easy way to > > detect and determine the file encoding on simple text files? > > > > > > > > I use the code at the link below, which seems to work OK. > > https://pastebin.com/1wzftPUg > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > [excessive quoting removed by server]