Up to now I can correctly tell a text file is Unicode Unicode big endian or UTF-8 with BOM by calling the following function.

What is the encoding of a text file. The ASCII encoding encompasses a character set of 128 characters Essentially synonymous to encoding. This is the recommended encoding unless you have some other requirements. To get the exact encoding you need the file executable that is.

VS Code manages the interface between a human entering strings of characters into a buffer and readingwriting blocks of bytes to the filesystem. Byte preamble encUtf8BomGetPreamble. Boolean couldBeUtf8 true.

Files generally indicate their encoding with a file header. To find the encoding type of the file execute the below command in terminal file -I file name Finding File Encoding Type In Windows. For example in the Cyrillic Windows encoding the character Й has the numeric value 201.

Afterward you can use chardet either in the command line. This check can easily be copied and adapted to detect many other encodings that use BOMs. If you open a txt file in notepadexe and click save as it will tell you what file encoding that file is.

Test UTF8 with BOM. For example the byte sequence 303275 c3 bd in hexadecimal could be ý in UTF-8 or ý in latin1 or Ă in latin2 or 羸 in BIG-5 and so on. Or it might be a different file type entirely binary.

I try with this code to get the standard encoding public static Encoding GetFileEncodingstring srcFile Use Default of EncodingDefault Ansi CodePage Encoding enc EncodingDefault. UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. Carriage return CR and line feed LF.