[Qt-interest] How to detect Text codec

[Harri Pasanen]

If it is raw text, you can only guess.  

Applying statistics you can do an educated guess, but that seldom works very 
well.

Usually encoding is explicit in the file, for instance see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

-Harri

Monday, May 16, 2011 02:20 pm 
NoRulez writes:
> I want to read a file from the filesystem, for that I use
> QIODevice::readAll();
> 
> Now I want to know the codec (ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, ...)
> 
> Because if it is UTF8 than I can use QString::fromUtf8(), but if it is
> ISO-8859-1 for example then I can't use QString::fromUtf8() because it
> produce garbage.
> 
> @Rajiv: BOM isn't required to use UTF-8
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Am 16.05.2011 um 13:23 schrieb Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>:
> > NoRulez:
> > 
> > I think you need to give us a bit more context
> > for your question.
> > 
> >                        Atlant
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of NoRulez Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 07:07
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> > Subject: [Qt-interest] How to detect Text codec
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can anybody give me a hint to detect the text codec used in a text file?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > NoRulez
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