Character encoding

[raphbg]

Hi,

I'm having some problems here with character encoding. I need to read
a file that I have no idea which character encoding it is using. Is
there a way to discover which encoding the file is using and convert it
to the character encoding that I want?

Thanks...

Raphael

 

[cp]

Hi,

I'm having some problems here with character encoding. I need to read
a file that I have no idea which character encoding it is using. Is
there a way to discover which encoding the file is using and convert it
to the character encoding that I want?

Thanks...

Raphael

Dont know if this is what you need....

String defaultEncoding = Charset.defaultCharset().name()
Returns the canonical name of the encodingtype used in this JVM instance.

Another suggestion:

String defaultEncoding = new InputStreamReader(InputStream
in).getEncoding();

 

[Rogan Dawes]

Hi,

I'm having some problems here with character encoding. I need to read
a file that I have no idea which character encoding it is using. Is
there a way to discover which encoding the file is using and convert it
to the character encoding that I want?

Thanks...

Raphael

You can try the Mozilla JCharDet library, which takes a statistical
approach to identifying the character set based on presences of certain
types of character.

Once you have identified the charset, then you can re-read the byte
stream using a suitable InputStreamReader, or whatever.

Rogan