On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
If I UniDecode the text, it comes good except for a weird character at
the start which I can handle, but is there a neat way to detect the
encoding of text before I start? I suppose I can just look for the
word "Subject" and if it isn't there, uniDecode and try again, but it
seems there should be a way to detect the encoding of the text itself.
Does the weird stuff at the start give me any clues? Checking the
ASCII codes, the text starts with ASCII 254, ASCII 255, space and then
the first character of my text. Perhaps that's my answer, but will
they always be 254 & 255 or does that vary with the encoding?
Any ideas?
Hi Sarah,
The "weird stuff" at the beginning is the BOM. This tells
applications opening the file what kind of UTF file you are dealing
with. Now, I'm not sure how to decipher each BOM but perhaps Google
will know the answer.
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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
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