Display character encoding

@dntelSep 26.2011

Hi Guys,

I’ve been fiddling with this for a while now and can only find out how to convert / change character encoding.

I want to write something super small that will just display the character encoding of a file i specify.

Can somebody give me some guidance of where to start?

Thanks,
Liam

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@KorSep 26.2011 — #If you are talking about HTML/XHTML files, the encoding is given by the specific meta tag written in the HEAD section:

<i>
 </i>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; [COLOR="Blue"]charset=utf-8[/COLOR]"&gt;

I don't understand your aim, however...

@dntelauthorSep 26.2011 — #If you are talking about HTML/XHTML files, the encoding is given by the specific meta tag written in the HEAD section:

<i>
 </i>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; [COLOR="Blue"]charset=utf-8[/COLOR]"&gt;

I don't understand your aim, however...[/QUOTE]

What I actually wanted to do was write a small function that could browse for a file and tell you the encoding that was currently on it.

At work I have to sometimes check the file encoding of files because scripts require them to be a certain one.

Is that clearer? ?

@KorSep 26.2011 — #ok, understood.

I am afraid that JavaScript alone can neither browse other files from a server nor to detect their encoding type. A server-side language would be the proper choice. If PHP, see also:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-detect-encoding.php

And even so, you can detect the encoding of a certain string there, not exactly how the whole document was encoded for...

@dntelauthorSep 26.2011 — #Thanks a lot.

I'll give PHP a go ?

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