In the case of Unicode this is not possible - it contains characters from all modern languages.

What is my text file encoding. If the BOM does not exist you must decide what file encoding to default to based on the files. String text null. Did something go wrong when you encoded decoded a text string or text file but you are not sure what codepage the text was encoded and decoded with.

Files generally indicate their encoding with a file header. The list of encodings is rather large. Or it might be a different file type entirely binary.

For example in the Cyrillic Windows encoding the character Й has the numeric value 201. The encoding standard that is saved with a text file provides the information that your computer needs to display the text on the screen. Some encodings have invalid byte sequences so its possible to rule them out for sure.

You must also know that some character sets are actually subsets of others like eg. With the file open in the editor either select File File Properties File Encoding from the main menu or click the File Encoding widget on the status bar and select the correct encoding of the file. Indexphp Click File - Save As.

File Encoding Checker is a GUI tool that allows you to validate the text encoding of one or more files. For text in several languages the required encoding may not be found at all. My line.

A file with the first three bytes 0xEF0xBB0xBF is probably a UTF-8 encoded file. You mention that you have problems opening the file in notepadexe. To specify the encoding of a filehandle opened for input.