In comp.lang.c Nordloew <pe*********@gmail.comwrote:
How do I efficiently determine which possible encoding(s) a given text
is in? Can I use the iconv.h api somehow?
Sorry, but that's not a question related to the C programming
language but about some specific task and libraries (that may
be written in C, but that doesn't make it on-topic). The basic
question would remain the same if you would use C, C++, Perl
or any other programming language.
So just a few hints: figuring out which encoding is used for a
file is probably a very difficult task since it would require
that the program understands something about the content of
the file. It's probably possible to make some well-educated
guess if the file is long enough, but a method that gets it
always right is, as far as I can see, impossible. And libiconv
isn't going to be of any help since it's for converting from an
already known encoding to another, it doesn't try to guess the
source encoding (except in the most trival way, using the
locale dependent character encoding when no source encoding
has been specified).
If you're interested in a more in-depth discussion it probably
would make sense to post to comp.programming instead.
Regards, Jens
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