Hi Cyril, I want to try to write such a detector. I'll get back to you.
Any chance you could give me (part of) a file that causes you trouble (one that is legal latin1, yet does not fail utf-8 while doing it wrong in utf-8) ? Sven > On 3 May 2017, at 11:40, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >
