On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:43, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > 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.
Yes, I know that all the guess jobs can fail. I was starting to be excited when started reading your reply but if it usually misinterprets UTF-8, that's a pretty significant problem... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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]
