Detect character encoding

Kent Johnson kent at kentsjohnson.com
Mon Dec 5 18:41:04 EST 2005


Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> I read or heard (can't remember the origin) that MS IE has a quite good 
> implementation of guessing the language en character encoding of web 
> pages when there not or falsely specified.

Yes, I think that's right. In my experience MS Word does a very good job 
of guessing the encoding of text files.

Kent



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