There's a good session from WWDC 2009, 112 - Text Processing in Cocoa, that has a segment about guessing encodings without having to read the entire file (in most cases). It's worth watching, even if it doesn't solve your problem directly.
-- michael On 30 Jul, 2010, at 15:09, Dave DeLong wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a seemingly simple question, but I haven't been able to figure it out. > > Given a file, how can I determine the NSStringEncoding of the file, without > reading the entire file into memory? (If the file isn't a text file, then > defaulting to NSUTF8StringEncoding is just fine, since my code will only work > properly if I'm working with text files anyway) > > I've found this: > http://www.macosxguru.net/article.php?story=20030808081801868 but it seems > ridiculously complex... > > Thanks, > > Dave_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mikey-san%40bungie.org > > This email sent to mikey-...@bungie.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com