Re: [fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Bart wrote: > As explained there is no certain way. > Lazarus comes with lconvencoding unit which has a guessencoding function. > Maybe this can be of some help to you? I'd not seen this unit before. Maybe this is the short way to do what I wanna do. Thanks. Marcos Douglas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > No such function [with exact results] exists anywhere (no matter the > programming language). The best programs can do is to interrogate the > contents of a file and make a best guess. How they do that > interrogation -- I unfortunately don't know. I guess you could look at > the source code of some of the open source text editors and see what > they do. Some text editors are much better than others. eg: EditPad Pro > (commercial) and jEdit (open source) are very good at these interrogations. Thanks. I'll try http://chsdet.sourceforge.net (Jonas' tip). > Alternatively, simply ask the person that supplies you with these files > to tell you want encoding they use. They must know the answer. It's not so simple... :) Marcos Douglas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote: > There are some heuristics you could try to apply (see e.g. > http://chsdet.sourceforge.net ), but in general it is impossible to know > for sure what encoding has been used Interesting project, I'll take a look, thanks. Marcos Douglas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
On 10/17/16, Marcos Douglas B. Santos wrote: > Is there a way to know what encoding was used at a string? > > My system are receiving some files and I don't know the encoding. > I would like to know and then, convert it. As explained there is no certain way. Lazarus comes with lconvencoding unit which has a guessencoding function. Maybe this can be of some help to you? (Ruling out a string is UTF8 (compatible) can be done 100%) Bart ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
On 2016-10-17 14:14, Marcos Douglas B. Santos wrote: > My system are receiving some files and I don't know the encoding. > I would like to know and then, convert it. No such function [with exact results] exists anywhere (no matter the programming language). The best programs can do is to interrogate the contents of a file and make a best guess. How they do that interrogation -- I unfortunately don't know. I guess you could look at the source code of some of the open source text editors and see what they do. Some text editors are much better than others. eg: EditPad Pro (commercial) and jEdit (open source) are very good at these interrogations. Alternatively, simply ask the person that supplies you with these files to tell you want encoding they use. They must know the answer. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
Marcos Douglas B. Santos wrote: > Is there a way to know what encoding was used at a string? > > My system are receiving some files and I don't know the encoding. > I would like to know and then, convert it. There are some heuristics you could try to apply (see e.g. http://chsdet.sourceforge.net ), but in general it is impossible to know for sure what encoding has been used. Jonas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] How to know the encoding of a string?
Hi, Is there a way to know what encoding was used at a string? My system are receiving some files and I don't know the encoding. I would like to know and then, convert it. Best regards, Marcos Douglas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
