On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > I've found different ways to do that (some pure Cocoa, some using Carbon) but > I was wondering about the wisdom of this list as to what is the best way to > detect the encoding of a file before passing it to NSString > initWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:?
TextEdit's encoding guesser just uses the built-in NSAttributedString method -initWithURL:options:documentAttributes:error:, which will guess the file's encoding when opening it. But it has been mentioned that heuristics are not infallible, and this method's heuristics are no exception. It does a good job overall, but I've found that it usually misinterprets UTF-8 format text. Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
