Dec 14, 2012 · A file format seems to be a way to interpret the bytes in a file, and file extensions seem to be one of the most used ways of identifying a file format. Does this mean there are formats …

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...

Assuming you have a file that is given to you just as a sequence of bytes, with no indication of the encoding, and you want to either determine an encoding consistent with the bytes, or reject the file.

When you are encoding or decoding, you can query the file.encoding property or Charset.defaultCharset() to find the current default encoding, and use the appropriate method or …

Feb 23, 2013 · A binary file can have encodings within it. To illustrate this, consider the previous example. I said that the four bytes following the first two in a BMP file give the size of the file in bytes. …

May 17, 2011 · I would like to know what is the value of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) property to set my file encoding to UTF-8. Do I put -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 or -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8?

What is the fastest, easiest tool or method to convert text files between character sets? Specifically, I need to convert from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 and vice versa. Everything goes: one-liners in your

Apr 27, 2024 · I want to Change the encoding used to view a file, but the encoding option is disabled the bottom right of the IJ window is read-only:

Mar 16, 2017 · The StreamReader.CurrentEncoding property rarely returns the correct text file encoding for me. I've had greater success determining a file's endianness, by analyzing its byte order mark …

Do you know the original encoding of the file (assuming it was converted at some point from one charset to another)? If so, you should be able to map from the resulting characters back to the original …