At 16:06 -0700 30/07/10, [email protected] wrote:
>From: Dave DeLong <[email protected]>
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:09:22 -0600
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>...
>Given a file, how can I determine the NSStringEncoding of the file, without 
>reading the entire file into memory?  (If the file isn't a text file, then 
>defaulting to NSUTF8StringEncoding is just fine, since my code will only work 
>properly if I'm working with text files anyway)

Beyond what others have already answered, one example heuristic can be found in 
this sample code:
http://brockerhoff.net/src/FolderSweep.zip
check the last method in AppController.m.

HTH,
-- 
Rainer Brockerhoff  <[email protected]>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
 In their own business even sages err."
Blog: http://brockerhoff.net/blog
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