[Qt-interest] Char format in a text file

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quinta-feira 15 Abril 2010, às 18:05:14, Gian Marco Gallo escreveu:
> Good afternoon
> 
> Is there a way to understand via Qt the character set of a text file? I
> mean: how can i understand via Qt if the file is UTF-8 or ASCII or so on
> encoded?

Not really.

You can try and decode as UTF-8 and see if you succeed. And if you see no 
high-byte characters, it's probably ASCII.

But it's always "probably". There's no way to know for certain.

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