Re: Determine encoding of file
Re: Determine encoding of file
- Subject: Re: Determine encoding of file
- From: Michael Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:39:31 -0700
And, of course, as Nick Z and that session point out, you may need to allow the user to choose the encoding somehow in your application, given you can't be 100% accurate when the encoding is unknown.
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michael
On 30 Jul, 2010, at 17:35, Michael Watson wrote:
> There's a good session from WWDC 2009, 112 - Text Processing in Cocoa, that has a segment about guessing encodings without having to read the entire file (in most cases). It's worth watching, even if it doesn't solve your problem directly.
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> michael
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> On 30 Jul, 2010, at 15:09, Dave DeLong wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> I have a seemingly simple question, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
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>> Given a file, how can I determine the NSStringEncoding of the file, without reading the entire file into memory? (If the file isn't a text file, then defaulting to NSUTF8StringEncoding is just fine, since my code will only work properly if I'm working with text files anyway)
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>> I've found this: http://www.macosxguru.net/article.php?story=20030808081801868 but it seems ridiculously complex...
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>> Thanks,
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