Question Fetch the Encoding type of a file

[jebinjc]

Hi,
Was trying to find the encoding type of a file like unicode, utf8, utf8 with BOM, ANSI etc. I was able to find all the encoding type but ANSI(Encoding.Default/Windows- 1252). I am not able to differentiate ANSI and UTF8. Tried different custom class like (Ude, TextFileEncodingDetector etc) which guesses it but not exactly right. Is there any way to do it?

 

[JohnH]

There is no BOM for ANSI, also for any Unicode encoding it is optional. ANSI may also mean any old code page, but could in a system mean the default code page. While in some cases BOM can be used to detect encoding, its primary function is strictly for detecting byte order (endianness) when transferring text data between different computer systems. There are long discussions to be found about detecting text encoding if you search the web.

 

[annaharris]

There is no way that you can fetch encoding type of a file for ANSI as there is no BOM available for it.