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I was wondering if there are known methods to detect (or give a best guess of) the encoding of a particular string in Java.
I know that you always need some additional meta-data to tell what the encoding is, and there are best practices etc., but the situation I’m in, I need to give the best approximation.
A solution — or a pointer — to programatically distinguishing between UTF-8 and UTF-16 is also welcome.
The utf-8 encoding should be easy to verify:
Take a look at this site to see the algorithm