On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > No such function [with exact results] exists anywhere (no matter the > programming language). The best programs can do is to interrogate the > contents of a file and make a best guess. How they do that > interrogation -- I unfortunately don't know. I guess you could look at > the source code of some of the open source text editors and see what > they do. Some text editors are much better than others. eg: EditPad Pro > (commercial) and jEdit (open source) are very good at these interrogations.
Thanks. I'll try http://chsdet.sourceforge.net (Jonas' tip). > Alternatively, simply ask the person that supplies you with these files > to tell you want encoding they use. They must know the answer. It's not so simple... :) Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
