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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:38:10 +0000
Subject: Re: how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ?
From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
To: iMath <redstone-cold@163.com>
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On 20 December 2012 11:57, iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> wrote:
>  how to detect the encoding used for a specific text data ?

Normally encoding is given in some way by the context of the data.
Otherwise no general solution is possible.

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