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 …

A character encoding provides a key to unlock (ie. crack) the code. It is a set of mappings between the bytes in the computer and the characters in the character set. Without the key, …

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 …

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 …

A character-encoding scheme is a mapping between one or more coded character sets and a set of octet (eight-bit byte) sequences. UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO 2022, and EUC are examples of …

In this context, that key is called a character encoding. This article offers simple advice on which character encoding to use for your content, and how to apply it, ie. how to actually produce a …

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 …

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 …

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...

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, …