Re: identify encoding from a file

  Marios lyberak writes

> i have a file which is generated out of an old Paradox database,
>
> and i try to figure out what is the encoding of these strangely represented
> characters

  I know of no way to automate this, and I don't think anybody else
  does. You just simply need to read the file with various encodings
  set at parsing, and manually inspect whether you get the right
  output.

  Your Paradox manual may be of help to reduce the number of candidate
  character sets.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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