Re: String Encoding Detection (Revisited)
Re: String Encoding Detection (Revisited)
- Subject: Re: String Encoding Detection (Revisited)
- From: James Quick <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:23:08 -0400
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 04:44 AM, Francisco Tolmasky wrote:
Ok, so I recently posted a question about auto-detecting string
encodings, and also looked through the archives. Basically there's no
way unless it is unicode and has a BOM. I still want an auto-detect
feature though, like BBEdit's. So basically, how do I check for a BOM
(I check TextEdit's code, couldn't find it, found lots of other stuff
though). Anyways, other than that and doing some weird spell checking
thing someone suggested (Using spellchecker to see if the string makes
sense or not, which would be pretty useless if it's code or anything
other than pure sentences), are there any other "tricks"?
And when all else fails and I resort to just using an encoding, which
one should I choose mac os roman, ascii, utf-8?
What you will want to do is get your data from the file into an NSData
object.
NSFileHandle, and the NSDocument classes both have methods which allow
you
to grab the raw contents of a file (or a file represented by a
filewrapper). You
may then examine the contents of the NSData object before using that
data to
initialize other objects.
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