Detect character encoding

[François Pinard]

[Diez B. Roggisch]
>Michal wrote:

>> is there any way how to detect string encoding in Python?

>Recode might be of help here, it has such heuristics built in AFAIK.

If we are speaking about the same Recode ☺, there are some built in 
tools that could help a human to discover a charset, but this requires 
work and time, and is far from fully automated as one might dream.  
While some charsets could be guessed almost correctly by automatic 
means, most are difficult to recognise.  The whole problem is not easy.

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