[Lazarus] Guessing the encoding of some text

[Zoë Peterson]

On 11/16/2017 4:25 AM, Torsten Bonde Christiansen via Lazarus wrote:
> Does Lazarus or FPC include other convinient tools that may detect the 
> encoding of (the content of) a file?
> What do others do in this situation?

If you need cross-platform, this works with some trivial changes:

http://chsdet.sourceforge.net/

If you're Windows only, Microsoft provides 
IMultiLanguage2.DetectInputCodepage():

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa740986(v=vs.85).aspx

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Zoë Peterson
Scooter Software