Thanks to everyone who responded with ideas on this.
John's suggestion of the TEC* functions was promising, but I ended up not using
them when I discovered that they're not available on the iPhone. Ditto for
Martin's suggestion of using getxattr.
I eventually ended up using Rainer's method (wh
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, 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
>> read
At 16:06 -0700 30/07/10, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
>From: Dave DeLong
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:09:22 -0600
>Message-ID:
>...
>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
And, of course, as Nick Z and that session point out, you may need to allow the
user to choose the encoding somehow in your application, given you can't be
100% accurate when the encoding is unknown.
--
michael
On 30 Jul, 2010, at 17:35, Michael Watson wrote:
> There's a good session from WWD
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 wro
Given a file, how can I determine the NSStringEncoding of the file,
without reading the entire file into memory?
Some files may have a text encoding attribute set, which you can read
using getxattr and "com.apple.textEncoding". Probably you won't have
the luxury of just using that API, but
Hi Dave-
I have some code I've been using for a few years for this purpose... when I
consulted Google on the source of the TECSniffer class that I have, the search
was not revealing. So... I've posted the class files here:
http://www.positivespinmedia.com/dev/TEC.zip
I believe it is using som
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:09 PM, 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 fi
On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, 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 fil
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, sinc
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