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I am using C#, I have a comma delimited csv file with different strings in different languages.
My app should only open the CSV if it’s unicode.
Is there an easy way to determine this in code ?
When you say “Unicode” I assume you mean UTF-8. Unicode is not an encoding and a file can’t be “Unicode”.
You could use a library, for example, ude is a C# library that attempts to determine what encoding a file uses. It uses the algorithm described here. It is not 100% foolproof.