> On Apr 16, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Daryle Walker <dary...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> If the given method is used to read in a pure ASCII file, will the encoding 
> be set to ASCII?  Or could the method return a superset encoding (like 
> Latin-1, MacRoman, or UTF-8)?

I don’t know; you could try it out, of course, but it sounds like the sort of 
undefined behavior you shouldn’t rely on.

If you’re trying to determine if the string is pure ASCII, you can use 
-rangeOfCharactersInSet: to look for anything above 127.

—Jens
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