Is there way to check is text file (.txt) encoded with Unicode or UTF-8 with Java?
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Is there way to check is text file (.txt) encoded with Unicode or UTF-8 with Java?
You cannot know with absolute certainty which charset is used in the general case. I found this to be a good read.
http://illegalargumentexception.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/java-rough-guide-to-character-encoding.html
Especially the section Automatic detection of encoding.