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1. Test serialization encoding    stackoverflow.com

What is the best way to verify/test that a text string is serialized to a byte array with a certain encoding? In my case, I want to verify that an XML structure ...

2. How do I properly store and retrieve internationalized Strings in properties files?    stackoverflow.com

I'm experimenting with internationalization by making a Hello World program that uses properties files + ResourceBundle to get different strings. Specifically, I have a file "messages_en_US.properties" that stores "hello.world=Hello World!", which works ...

3. Java App : Unable to read iso-8859-1 encoded file correctly    stackoverflow.com

I have a file which is encoded as iso-8859-1, and contains characters such as ô . I am reading this file with java code, something like:

     File ...

4. How can I find the byte encoding of a TIBCO Rendezvous message?    stackoverflow.com

In my Java application, I am archiving TIBCO RV messages to a file as bytes. I am writing a small utility app that will play the messages back. This way I ...

5. How can I safely encode a string in Java to use as a filename?    stackoverflow.com

I'm receiving a string from an external process. I want to use that String to make a filename, and then write to that file. Here's my code snippet to do this:

 ...

6. enabling UTF-8 encoding for clojure source files    stackoverflow.com


I'm working on a project which involves maven, java and clojure. The problem I'm facing is this, I have some UTF-8 chars in my clojure source ...

7. File is not saved in UTF-8 encoding even when I set encoding to UTF-8    stackoverflow.com

When I check my file with Notepad++ it's in ANSI encoding. What I am doing wrong here?

OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "UTF8");
try
     {   
 ...

8. How do I set file.encoding for a junit test in ant?    stackoverflow.com

I'm not quite done with file.encoding and ant. How do I set the file.encoding for junit tests in ant? The junit ant task doesn't support the encoding ...

9. Java File parsing toolkit design, quick file encoding sanity check    stackoverflow.com

(Disclaimer: I looked at a number of posts on here before asking, I found this one particularly helpful, I was just looking for a bit of a sanity check from ...





10. Chinese encoding issue while listing files    stackoverflow.com

I am running a Java application on a Solaris10 with Chinese. Now there are some files in a directory with chinese filenames. When I do files = new File(dir).list() where "dir" ...

11. how to know which special character is there in a file?    stackoverflow.com

My app needs to process text files during a batch process. Occassionally I receive a file with some special character at the end of the file. I am not sure what ...

12. Error reading UTF-8 file in Java    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to read in some sentences from a file that contains unicode characters. It does print out a string but for some reason it messes up the unicode characters This ...

13. How to find encodng of a file programatically?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
Java : How to determine the correct charset encoding of a stream
How to identify the encoding of a input file by using JAVA? ...

14. Encoding problem while trying to read and write in html file with Java    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to read some text from an html file, modify it in a specific way and write the result in a new html file. But the problem is that the ...

15. How to detect the character encoding of a file in Java?    stackoverflow.com

Good day, Our application receives files from our users, and those files must be validated if they are of the encoding type that we support (i.e. UTF-8, Shift-JIS, EUC-JP), and once that ...

16. Byte Order Mark generating a file using Mono in Ubuntu    stackoverflow.com

My .NET utility AjGenesis is a code generation tool. The compiled binaries runs without glitches under Ubuntu 10.x, and Mono. But I have a problem: generating a java text file (a ...





17. How to extract PKCS12 signature from .pfx file with base 64 bit encoding using java    stackoverflow.com

I need to append the Digital signature in PKCS7 format with base 64 encoding as a parameter in the http post request, I have a pfx file which actually holds the ...

18. How to convert custom encoded file to UTF-8 (in Java or with a dedicated tool)    stackoverflow.com

A legacy software I'm rewriting in Java uses custom (similar to Win-1252) encoding as it's data storage. For the new system I'm building I'd like to replace this with UTF-8. So I ...

19. Reading UTF-8 - BOM marker    stackoverflow.com

I'm reading a file through a FileReader - the file is UTF-8 decoded (with BOM) now my problem is: I read the file and output a string, but sadly the BOM ...

20. Java compiler platform file encoding problem    stackoverflow.com

This is my first post to stack overflow. I've been doing Java since 1998, so I'm no beginner. Recently I encountered a file character encoding issue that I cannot ...

21. how to get the real character encoding of a file java    stackoverflow.com

Any idea about gettin the real encoding of a file like .html .txt .java and etc in java? Since some source codes are not utf-8,I wantto change them to utf-8.

22. Java source file encoding with Chinese character    stackoverflow.com

I import a Java project from Windows platform to Ubuntu.
My Ubuntu is 10.10, Gnome environment: My LANGUAGE is set to en_US:en
My terminal's character encoding is: Unicode (UTF-8)
My IDE is eclipse and ...

23. getResourceAsStream - What encoding is it read as?    stackoverflow.com

I am using getResourceAsStream to access a local file. What encoding does it assume the file is?

24. How to efficiently convert character encoding in Channel?    stackoverflow.com

I need to accept streams with different encodings and transcode them to single predefined encoding (e.g. UTF-8). I know how to do this with (InputStream)Reader / (OutputStream)Writer combo and array buffer, ...

25. How can I identify different encodings against files without the use of a BOM and beginning with non-ASCII character?    stackoverflow.com

I got a problem when trying to identify the encoding of a file without BOM, particularly when the file is beginning with non-ascii characters. I found following two topics about how to ...

26. reading file with accented characters in Java    stackoverflow.com

I came across two special characters which seem not to be covered by the ISO-8859-1 character set i.e. they don't make it through to my program. The German ß and the Norwegian ø i'm ...

27. Get filename as UTF-8? (ä,ü,ö ... is always '?')    stackoverflow.com

I have to read the name of some files and put them in a list as a string. Its not so hard I just have some Problems with some characters like ...

28. How to change file encoding table in java    stackoverflow.com

I have my code to check encoding table:

System.out.println("enc. table: "+System.getProperty("file.encoding") +
          "enc. table: "+new java.io.OutputStreamWriter(new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream()).getEncoding() + 
    ...

29. Arabic file names converted into question marks    stackoverflow.com

I have a spring application in one of the forms the use supposed to upload an excel file. The application saves the file on the hard desk and provide a link to ...

30. jackson - json encoding of doubles with controlled precision    stackoverflow.com

I'm encoding a complex Map structure with arrays of double values. High precision is not important and output size is, so I'm trying to get the JSON tool (Jackson in this case) ...

31. Intellij IDEA: "unmappable character for encoding UTF-8" compiling ISO-8859-1 files    stackoverflow.com

I have a mixed-encoding source tree and I'm getting the warning above for some of my source files. I managed to sucessfully set the encoding for those files to ISO 8859-1 ...

32. Encoding problems exporting file    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to find out what has happen in an integration project. We just can't get the encoding right at the end. A Lithuanian file was imported to the as400. There, ...

33. Java Apache FileUtils readFileToString and writeStringToFile problems    stackoverflow.com

I need to parse a java file (actually a .pdf) to an String and go back to a file. Between those process I'll apply some patches to the given string, but ...

34. Unable to compress file during Huffman Encoding in Java    stackoverflow.com

I have implemented the Huffman Encoding Algorithm in Java using Priority Queues where I traverse the Tree from Root to Leaf and get encoding example as #=000011 based on the number ...

35. Ant replace task corrupts symbols in UTF-8 file    stackoverflow.com

I have the following ant task:

<target name="test">
    <replace file="test.txt" token="smth" value="anything"/>        
</target>
test.txt is UTF-8 encoded. The problem is that when I ...

36. System.loadLibrary UnsatisfiedLinkError ELF file data encoding not little-endian    stackoverflow.com

I have been following a JNI tutorial: http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/JDCBook/jniexamp.html and my C library is successfully built but I am having problems using it. When I run my Java program in Eclipse on OpenSuse11 ...

37. How to read bytes to string regardless of encoding?    coderanch.com

If you just want to use java's method of converting a byte[] to a String then you can simply use String xxx = new String(b) but, if your hav differing requirements then you will need to increment through the array and convert each byte to a char and add it to a string. I tried to find out how String converts ...

38. Character Encoding - mahine independent    coderanch.com

Hi all. This is my first post here, so here it goes: I was just wondering if anybody could offer me any suggestions on this (I know I can do it using streams... just don't know exactly how). I am writing a small File Transfer client (TFTP). In a netascii transfer, the data consists of lines of ASCII text followed by ...

39. Encoding Decoding Using Base64    coderanch.com

40. verify encoding    coderanch.com

Hi, I execute an application on unix-aix that should produce a file with windows encoding. This is because the file should be used for an windows application. The code look something like this: =============================================================== FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("write1.txt"); BufferedWriter out1 = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(fos,"Cp1252")); out1.write("Line1"); out1.newLine(); out1.write("Line 2"); out1.close(); =============================================================== This executes fine, but how can I verify that the ...

41. Weird Encoding    coderanch.com

Weird Encoding (I/O and Streams forum at JavaRanch) A friendly place for programming greenhorns! Register / Login Java Forums Java I/O and Streams Weird Encoding Post by: Tapan Parikh, Greenhorn on Jul 15, 2001 08:18:00 My data is stored in the database in a strange encoding - ISCII, an 8-bit encoding for Indian languages. Basically this code uses the ...

43. encoding of I/O    coderanch.com

Is there no way to know the encoding of a file? If so,how can I read the file? I want to find some lines in several .xsl files,but the encoding of these files are different(UTF-8 and UTF-16). I found I can not read a UTF-16 file use UTF-8 encoding,vice versa. How can I do with the case? part code: BufferedReader bufReader ...

44. character encoding conversions    coderanch.com

45. default encoding problems    coderanch.com

I'am facing a wierd problem. read on... When I try to run the following code I get different result with default encoding on both Unix and NT. Can any one shed some light on this? by the way I am restricted to use only Java 1.2.2 I know JDK1.3 and beyond JDK come with character encodings including UTF-16 etc.. My question ...

47. Encoding UTF-8 and MalformedInput Exception    coderanch.com

All, I am a rather curious problem thats bothering me... The following code snippet page = new URL(pageUri); urlConn = page.openConnection(); urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookieList); pageConn = new InputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream(),"UTF-8"); works ok for a few pages and bombs out for others. As far as i am aware, all the content that is being attempted to be served is UTF-8.. so i am bit bemused. ...

48. Setting JVM default String encoding    coderanch.com

49. Encoding    coderanch.com

50. Encoding ISO646-DE    coderanch.com

51. Determine a file's encoding    coderanch.com

Is there a method somewhere in the J2SE API that you pass in a file and have it return what charset that file is encoded in? I've searched through the J2SE and haven't found anything. (Sorry if this question seems too basic, but I'm just now in the process of learning more detail about charsets and file encoding since I currently ...

52. XML Encoding problem    coderanch.com

Hi, Having trouble with encoding related to an XML translation, the XML comes to me as a byte array, its encoded using extended latin. I think the following code should work, I set the encoding where I can, both on the creation of the input source, and prior to the transformation, however, the transformation does not work. (Output is just the ...

53. Encoding problen in RTFEditorKit    coderanch.com

Hi, I have the following code. When I read an rtf file which was encoded with ISO-8859-9, I see that no encoding was taken into consideration. The special characters are not converted to the actual values. What can I do? TIA. Ahmet Aksoy .... RTFEditorKit rtf = new RTFEditorKit(); JEditorPane editor = new JEditorPane(); editor.setEditorKit( rtf ); FileInputStream fi = new ...

54. File Encoding    coderanch.com

55. charachter encoding    coderanch.com

First of all, InputStream and OutputStream do not enforce any particular character encoding since they can be used to transfer arbitrary binary data. I think this means it is difficult to tell what character coding is used by an InputStream or OutputStream since they might not be used for text at all! On the other hand Readers and Writers are used ...

56. determine encoding at runtime    coderanch.com

Yes, this is what I was asking for. I need to be able to upload a file into an application that supports 7 languages (at this moment, in the future more). The text in the file can be written in any language. For instance, I have to following string (having diacritics) in the file "Zeitschrift fr anorganische und allgemeine Chemie". If ...

57. UTF-8 encoding    coderanch.com

hi all, i convert arabic words+english numbers to binary utf-8 byte utf8[] = message.getBytes("UTF-8"); response.setContentLength(utf8.length); out.write(utf8); out.flush(); out.close(); where message as i said before is a string of arabic words & english numbers.. when a J2ME application read it it throws UTF8FormatException.. & i read that may be because it shouldnt be mix of different charset.. now i want solution for ...

58. Encoding and Decoding Issues across OS    coderanch.com

Hi all, I'm using Java 5. I try to encode a byte array using encoding functionality in String and decode it back in to byte array from the encoded string. If no encoding scheme is specified the default encoding for that platform is taken. I ran my application on red hat linux 7.2, fedora core 3, Windows XP. I have listed ...

59. Encoding Question    coderanch.com

I'm having problems reading a file with Java that was created in the .NET Framework. Althought I can read the bytes, it seems that the encoding is not the same. The file was created in C Sharp using a BinaryWriter, which I believe uses UTF-8 encoding. I'm using the read(byte[],int,int) method of DataInputStream in Java. Does anybody know how to make ...

60. What is Encoding and character conversion    coderanch.com

What is Encoding and Character conversion? What is US-ASCII to UTF-8 encoding and UTF8 suppose, I want to encode the US-ASCII data into UTF-8. For that what is the procedure. I have to use 1.InputStreamReader and OutPutStreamReader 2.Charset/CharsetEncoder/CharsetDecoder . Is is right? What is the difference between the two processes? Process 1: Read ASCII data and store into some string object ...

61. Encoding problem when writing to file system    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm generating a String containing some HTML that contains many accents. When I try to save it to file, the accents and cyilic characters are mangled. I would like to be able to save a file like this one: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html I've tried various encodings: MacRoman (i'm in front of a Mac for now) and the UTF8 encodings for the OutputStreamWriter ...

62. encoding problem with EBCDIC/ASCII    coderanch.com

I'm creating a file that has to be '|' (pipe) delimited from a java program running on unix (ASCII). It then get transfered to an ibm mainframe (EBCDIC) through a secure ftp type of program that I don't have control over. From there it gets transfered over the net and in the hands of the customer, probably back into a unix ...

63. Fun (well, not really..) with character encoding    coderanch.com

Here's the scenerio: I'm modifying (really just doing some find and replace) and saving XML files (at this stage, they're just text files for all intents and purposes - I'm not using any XML APIs), which are then used as input for XSLT transformation using the Saxon 6.5.5 processor. Here's the problem: If I use the following code to write the ...

64. Understanding Byte Data and Character Encoding    coderanch.com

Understanding Byte Data and Character Encoding (I/O and Streams forum at JavaRanch) A friendly place for programming greenhorns! Register / Login Java Forums Java I/O and Streams Understanding Byte Data and Character Encoding Post by: Jaz Chana, Ranch Hand on Sep 08, 2008 05:40:00 Hi Guys, I am a relative newby in the programming world and I'm trying to ...

65. Problems with encoding and files    coderanch.com

Hi friends pls some help my problems is the following I have a ftp server running on linux and in my program I download files from the ftp server using class specified below.When I download the file content not all content is coming ok. For example I have a string with Ral1234%#=?[a_@ and when I read content using my methods this ...

66. determine encoding of a file    coderanch.com

Hello All I hope this question belongs here in the intermediate Java forum.I apologise if it doesnt. I wanted to know if there is a way to find out the encoding(UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 or some other) of a text file.If there's a way to determine the encoding by looking at the hex format of the text? Ive googled this but found ...

68. Charset / Encoding problem when reading XML    coderanch.com

Hey all, We're making an import functionality for our CMS, and it needs to import some things from a XML feed (RSS to be more specific)... The encoding of the XML is (and cannot be changed) ISO-8859-1, but when we read it, i think that it reads it as UTF-8... Anyone know how we can make the ISO-8859-1 chars work? URL ...

69. Encoding file name with java    coderanch.com

HI i have some basic problem with encoding filename i have a file with space in its name. the file name is test this.txt here isthe code which i am using to encode the file name, when i use encode url it does not save at all any idea why public static void main(String args[]){ BasicTest bt = new BasicTest(); bt.test(); ...

70. problem with charset encoding    coderanch.com

71. The java compiler and encoding of sourcde file.    coderanch.com

Hi, I have a source file from a repository that causes a warning when I compile on my local machine: "Unmappable character for encoding UTF8" I have googled and found a "fix", which is to specify an encoding as an optional parameter when invoking the compiler. However, I have always heard that Java sources could use Unicode, so whats up ? ...

72. What every developer should know about character encoding    coderanch.com

What every developer should know about character encoding (I/O and Streams forum at JavaRanch) A friendly place for programming greenhorns! Register / Login Java Forums Java I/O and Streams What every developer should know about character encoding Post by: David Thielen, Greenhorn on Nov 15, 2009 10:31:50 I wrote an earlier post like this about timezones assuming 20 people ...

73. Validating UTF-8 encoding using CharsetDecode    coderanch.com

Background: One of our Oracle DBAs is reporting funny characters in some of our VARCHAR2 (CHAR 500) fields that may suffer from "lossy conversion". The database is configured for AL32UTF8. He is detecting these problems using the Oracle "csscan" utility with FROMCHAR=AL32UTF8 and TOCHAR=UTF8. To begin the investigation of this problem and to get familiar with character encodings, I was trying ...

74. [Solved] Encoding Greek chars in Java    coderanch.com

75. Problem with Hebrew encoding    coderanch.com

The Strings are likely being read in OK, but the console is unable to print the characters. I'm no pro at this, but one solution is to display the text using a GUI. import java.awt.Dimension; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.net.URL; import javax.swing.JEditorPane; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; import javax.swing.JTextArea; public class Fu2 { public static void main(String[] ...

76. How to find the encoding format of a file?    coderanch.com

There are a set of text based files which have to be modified. The files are in different encoding formats and the encoding formats should be maintained. Could someone please help me in finding the encoding format used in the file? Are there any libraries or Java APIs available? Thanks in Advance,

77. How to validate a file to UTF-8 encoding    coderanch.com

Hello, I have a technical requirement saying a file I generated must be in UTF-8 encoding. Now I'd like to create a unit test that tests if the file actually is in this encoding. How would I accomplish this? Would java.nio.charset.Charset or java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder be of some help? Or perhaps use InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("test.txt"), "UTF-8") and use this stream ...

78. Problems while parsing files in different encoding    coderanch.com

Hello If You want, please help me with the following: A have a test.txt file, with single line: Caption = Rckwrt Caption = Vorwrts Caption = Vorwrts As you can see there are some Unicode characters like "" With the following program: public class Main { private static String pattern = "(Caption) = [a-zA-Z]*"; public static void main(String[] args) { Pattern ...

79. Character encoding question    coderanch.com

This is (hopefully) a really simple question, but there is such a plethora of information on this topic (a lot of it seemingly suspect), that it's hard to separate the good from the bad. In a nutshell, I need to read text encoded in ISO-8859-1 and save it in a database as UTF-8. Specifically, I have an xml file that begins ...

80. file name encoding problem    coderanch.com

What is filename encoding when you create a file in below way: ----------------------------------------- String filename = "name including chinese charaters" File file = new File("filename"); file.createNewFile(); ----------------------------------------- In java class, the filename string is a string including chinese characters. I think the filename encoding maybe affected by the os chartset. But when the file.encoding is CP-1252 and run the class , ...

81. FTPClient storeFile - uploaded file get wrong encoding    coderanch.com

First of all I searched the forum to see if someone has had the same problems that I have but did not find any. Im using Apache FTPClient to connect and upload files and it works fine except for one thing. My application is running on a Linuxmachine which has UTF-8 as default encoding. What happens when I transfer a file ...

82. What is the encoding I should to get the polish characters correctly from request?    coderanch.com

I am using doPost() method in my servlet. When I am getting the input stream from request the polish characters are being corrupted like "?". Can some one please help me to resolve this issue. Do I need to pass any encoding, if yes what is it? I have tried with ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. Here in my application we need to ...

83. Character Encoding    coderanch.com

Hi I had problem in converting blob object (which was stored as zip) to string. since i used different encoding format while reading from the database vs encoding used by database to convert the data to blob object. below code creates problem if i use different encoding final int DATA_BLOCK_SIZE = 2048; while ((byteCount = sourceStream.read(data, 0, DATA_BLOCK_SIZE)) != -1) { ...

84. Encoding in Java file    coderanch.com

Hi All, I am facing some strange output of the same compiled class, when running from eclipse and when my project is deployed in tomcat. My java file contains characters like "". If I run the project from eclipse it works fine and the class file is also good. This is because the default encoding in eclipse is UTF-8. But when ...

85. Need help! Encoding from a file.    java-forums.org

86. Output file in ANSI Encoding.    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I have created a serch and replace program which works fine with normal text files. But it doesn't work with oracle database dump files because I think they are ANSI encoded. Can someone body please point me in the right direction. My program; Gets source file Gets find and replace strings. Makes a copy of the source file saves all ...

87. How to Set "file.encoding" System Property to default "UTF-8"    forums.oracle.com

I don't think you can set it from within your code, but you should not have to either. You can easily avoid having to set this encoding by being careful about the way you open your files. Don't use FileReader, because it can only use the platform default encoding. Instead create a FileInputStream and warp it in a InputStreamReader. This way ...

88. Saving a file in unicode encoding    forums.oracle.com

89. file encoding    forums.oracle.com

Even if you require it. As Kayaman says it's not possible, unless the file type you analyze somewhere has it's encoding specified. You can make an educated guess, 'though (for example if you know that it's either UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 or EBCDIC try to parse some parts of the text and see what results in something resembling what you expect in the ...

90. Encoding Problem - can't read UTF-8 file correctly    forums.oracle.com

Content of File (utf-8, thai string): When opened in Editor and copy pasted to JTextField, characters are displayed correctly: String text = jtf.getText(); text.getBytes("utf-8"); -32 -71 -128 -32 -72 -95 -32 -71 -121 -32 -72 -108 -32 -71 -128 -32 -72 -91 -32 -72 -73 -32 -72 -83 -32 -72 -108 -32 -72 -126 -32 -72 -78 -32 -72 -89 ...

91. Encoding Issue: Change UTF8 with BOM char file to UTF16LE without BOM char.    forums.oracle.com

'uncle_alice' - in the OP's other thread on this topic I posted a decorated InputStream class that will strip of any (well any I could find definitions of) BOM prefix. Using this it is almost trivial for the OP to convert a file from one encoding to another without worrying about the BOM. I showed him the water but I can't ...

92. I dont understand the file.encoding parameter    forums.oracle.com

Im running Windows Vista and using Intellij Jetbrans. I have a file with the name division (In case not displayed this is unicode charcter \u01ff) the filename displays fine on In Windows Explorer, and fine within my programs gui, but on StandardOut File.getName() returns it as division? Why does it show the question mark, when it can display it ok in ...

94. File write with Shift_JIS encoding    forums.oracle.com

95. writing file with UTF16 encoding    forums.oracle.com

Where did this code come from? Did you just do this? Anyway does it work? A quick glance suggests it should be fine. If the content of that file is already corrupted (and if you used the code from the first post already then it is corrupted) then this won't "fix" that.

96. java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder not encoding in correct encoding type    forums.oracle.com

When you talk of converting text from one encoding to another, it only makes sense if you're writing it to some stream, or if you're converting it to bytes in memory and working directly with those bytes in memory. Any time you go back to Strings, you end up in UTF-16. If by any chance, you use incompatible encodings during any ...

97. file encoding    forums.oracle.com

Those search result doesn't give much idea about it Yet, they should, cause most hits are answered with something like the following: 1.) No, there's no safe way to be sure about the encoding. 2.) There are heuristics to be used for a good guess, such as probing the text for certain code sequences; for example you can check a file ...

98. File encoding question    forums.oracle.com

Just attempting to open some file and read it to screen with BufferedReader and no encoding is handled anywhere... I tried to save an html file to .txt and just use that as a test file, but yeah encoding was different from ???(the standard encoding I guess) and stopped at some point in the text file. I did open notepad2 and ...

100. Finding the encoding of an Arbitirary Files.    forums.oracle.com

Hi all, I need to find out the encoding of some arbitrary files (more than a thousand) downloaded from internet (source codes) (So I don't know the real encodings). Is there any java class/method that guesses the encoding of a file? Is there any tutorials to write such a program? (It is still ok, if the program/method/class can find the encoding ...