Character encoding

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raphbg@gmail.com - 24 Jul 2006 18:36 GMT

Hi,

I'm having some problems here with character encoding. I need to read
a file that I have no idea which character encoding it is using. Is
there a way to discover which encoding the file is using and convert it
to the character encoding that I want?

Thanks...

Raphael

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cp - 24 Jul 2006 23:06 GMT

> Hi,
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> Raphael

Dont know if this is what you need....

String defaultEncoding = Charset.defaultCharset().name()
Returns the canonical name of the encodingtype used in this JVM instance.

Another suggestion:

String defaultEncoding = new InputStreamReader(InputStream
in).getEncoding();

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Rogan Dawes - 25 Jul 2006 06:38 GMT

> Hi,
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> Raphael

You can try the Mozilla JCharDet library, which takes a statistical
approach to identifying the character set based on presences of certain
types of character.

Once you have identified the charset, then you can re-read the byte
stream using a suitable InputStreamReader, or whatever.

Rogan

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