Fetch the Encoding type of a File in C#

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I was trying to find the encoding type of a file like unicode, utf8, utf8 with BOM, ANSI etc. I was able to find all the encoding type but ANSI(Encoding.Default/Windows- 1252). I am not able to differentiate ANSI and UTF8. Tried different custom class like (Ude, TextFileEncodingDetector etc) which guesses it but not exactly right. Is there any way to do it?

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:02am

jebin Cherian

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Yvan Rodrigues · Answer 1 · 2012-09-18T03:34:00

Solution 1

Unless the document uses any characters >= 0x80, 1252 and UTF-8 would be indistinguishable (unless a BOM is present).

If it does use characters >= 0x80, it would be a matter of checking the documents for tell-tale indicators, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Codepage_layout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252#Codepage_layout

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:34am

Yvan Rodrigues

Updated 18-Sep-12 4:28am

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jebin Cherian 18-Sep-12 10:22am

Thanks for the reply Yvan. Will that differ according to the languages.

Yvan Rodrigues 18-Sep-12 10:30am

This would be true of all languages.

Kuthuparakkal · Answer 2 · 2012-09-18T03:41:00

Solution 2

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/Unicode.html[^]

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:41am

Kuthuparakkal