If the encoding of character data is unknown, there is no simple way to automatically establish it. If you know what the text is supposed to represent, you can perhaps infer it, but this is typically a manual …

An encoding type of 7BIT requires that the body is already in a seven-bit mail- ready representation. This is the default value -- that is, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT" is assumed if the Content …

UTF-8 can be auto-detected better by contents than by BOM. The method is simple: try to read the file (or a string) as UTF-8 and if that succeeds, assume that the data is UTF-8. Otherwise assume that it …

14.11 Content-Encoding The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional content codings have been applied to the …

This isn't really a programming question, is there a command line or Windows tool (Windows 7) to get the current encoding of a text file? Sure I can write a little C# app but I wanted to know if th...

Character encoding is a very central and basic necessity for internationalization. For computer communication, characters have to be encoded into bytes. There are very simple encodings, but also …

It seems like, even with this overabundance of encoding methods, they all still fail pretty spectacularly for anything above Latin-1, such as → or ☠. (UrlEncodedUnicode seems like it at least tries to support …

5.2.2 Specifying the character encoding How does a server determine which character encoding applies for a document it serves? Some servers examine the first few bytes of the document, or check …

Note: This answer applies to Windows PowerShell (the legacy, ships-with-Windows, Windows-only edition of PowerShell whose latest and last version is 5.1); by contrast, in the cross-platform …

Feb 26, 2014 · A character encoding declaration is also needed to process non-ASCII characters entered by the user in forms, in URLs generated by scripts, and so forth. This article describes how …