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Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ?

Date 2012-12-20 15:19 +0100
From Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Subject Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ?
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Am 20.12.2012 12:57, schrieb iMath:
>  how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ?

You can't.

It's not possible unless the file format can specify the encoding
somehow, e.g. like XML's header <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.
Sometimes you can try and make an educated guess. But it's just a guess
and it may give you wrong results.

Christian

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how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2012-12-20 03:57 -0800
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2012-12-20 04:06 -0800
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-12-20 14:48 +0200
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? "Stefan H. Holek" <stefan@epy.co.at> - 2012-12-20 14:17 +0100
    Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2012-12-20 05:50 -0800
      Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-12-20 16:10 +0200
    Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2012-12-20 05:50 -0800
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2012-12-20 15:19 +0100
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2012-12-20 09:48 -0800
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-12-21 12:38 +0000
  Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-12-21 09:14 -0500

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