[Pharo-users] How to detect encoding of a file

[Cyril Ferlicot D.]

Hello,

We have a problem using Moose because we have files which we don't know
the encoding. Currently we have this implementation to get the content
of a file:

completeText
  self fileReference exists ifFalse: [ ^ '' ].
  ^ self fileReference readStreamDo: [ :s |
    [ s contents ]
      on: Error
      do: [ [ s converter: Latin1TextConverter new; contents ]
        on: Error
        do: [ '' ] ] ]

But, we have a problem because we have currently some files at
Synectique in ISO-8859-1. The problem is that #contents is able to read
some of the files without throwing an error, but the content is not
right because it is not the good encoding.

Thus I wonder if it is possible to get the Encoding of a FileReference
in Pharo to be able to read the file with the right encoding? Something
like the bash command `file -I myFile.txt`.

-- 
Cyril Ferlicot
https://ferlicot.fr

http://www.synectique.eu
2 rue Jacques Prévert 01,
59650 Villeneuve d'ascq France

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