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Guido Anselmi
Guido Anselmi

Reputation: 3912

How to Identify the Encoding for a Text File

Someone suggested a HEX editor which I downloaded and ran. However looking at these lovely groups of numbers and letters I still don't know what encoding it is in.

The guy who emailed me the file told me it is microsoft. :)

Any ideas?

Thanks-in-Advance,

Guido

P.S. I tagged it Java because the code processing the file is in Java.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 972

Answers (1)

Ben B
Ben B

Reputation: 789

I use http://www.textpad.com/ for this all the time.

Open the file and then go to 'Save as'... You should be able to see the current encoding.

Upvotes: 1

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