[Lazarus] Guessing the encoding of some text

[Torsten Bonde Christiansen]

Hi List.

I am reading some text of some .csv files, but the encoding of the files 
is not always the same. In fact it may vary greatly from a lot of 
european encodings, UTF8 and asian encoding.

I have tried using the function GuessEncoding(..) in LConvEncoding.pas, 
but from the source code I can see that it mostly focuses on BOM's and 
ASCII/UTF-8

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?

My goal is to convert all the read text to UTF-8.

Kind regards,
Torsten.